War Quotes by Roedy

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1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

I don’t think anyone who did not live through the 1962-10 Cuban missile crisis
can appreciate how terrifying it was. Kennedy and Khrushchev were like two gunslingers trying to dominate each
other. Kennedy demanded Russia remove missiles from Cuba. But in return he refused to remove missiles from Turkey
aimed at the U.S.S.R.. The irony was, the missiles in Turkey were obsolete, and had already been
ordered removed, to be replaced by Polaris submarines. Kennedy was willing to risk global nuclear war so he could
publicly appear to have totally dominated Khrushchev, by offering nothing in return. Thankfully, saner heads
prevailed and the USA secretly agreed to remove the Turkish missiles. Kennedy damn well deserved to have his fool
head blown off on 1963-11-27 after that testosterone-fueled stunt.

With the corpses and weapons of the suicide attackers, police should be able to identify them, then everyone
they knew, and everyone they communicated with. This should lead to rounding up everyone involved who is still
alive. This is much simpler than preventing an attack.

What kind of monsters target young civilians? Well France, the USA and Canada who killed children, women and
the elderly with their bombs, bullets, banned weapons and torture in Afghanistan and Iraq. Imagine if
ISIS
had mounted an aerial attack that left Paris in rubble like Fallujah. The attack seems unprecedented because we
in the west are the ones attacked. We tend to forget our own similar sins or look at them through preposterously
rosy glasses.
Noam Chomsky on Exceptionalism

ISIS
made themselves look silly by claiming miracles were responsible for the coordinated attacks. Balderdash! All
they needed to pull that off were synchronised watches. Various experts tried to
make ISIS
look more formidable by gushing over the synchronisation.

We are creating a mythical, shadowy enemy with unfathomable motives. We cannot defeat them if we refuse to
look at them honestly. We are scaring ourselves silly with our lies. To understand their motives and recruiting
techniques, we also have to consider what we have done to them in past. We have to understand their case against
us, just as a lawyer would.

The last thing people think of doing to find out what motivates terrorists is to ask them. But you can
read their explanation.

There were about 150 killed in the attack. To put this is perspective, in the USA
there are 11,200 gun-homicides per year. 27,000 were killed
in the Battle of France when France fell to the Nazis. In the USA, 32,719 people die
each year in car accidents. The American bombing attacks on Fallujah killed 70% of the
people. Though the Paris attack is a crippling emotional blow, is not a blow that cripples France.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper was a egotistical twit who fancied himself as a WWII (World War II)
general. He insisted on Canada taking a bombing role on ISIS
even though his force was microscopic and just got in the way. Training and humanitarian work were beneath his
dignity, even though that was what was mostly needed. The new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is more practical,
and is willing to take on the less glamorous work. Rona Ambrose, the interim PC leader, is trying to make
political points by insisting Canada bomb somebody, anybody to satisfy the gut reactions of hawkish
Canadians.

France wants to triple its bombing on Syria. The problem with that is Syria contains a mix of pro-Assad
forces, rebels, ISIS
and civilians. There is so way they can avoid killing everyone, including those who just want to get out of the
country to avoid the fighting who we are trying to help.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

9/11 Culprits

The 9/11 attacks were over in hours. America’s revenge has dragged out for
15 years, 2 months and 2 days
killing millions of people who had absolutely nothing do with 9/11. Even President Bush
admitted the Afghans and the Iraqis had nothing to do with 9/11. He claimed the
attackers, including bin Laden, were Saudi. Americans are utterly insane to be proud of themselves for this
behaviour. Not even the Nazis were that obsessed.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

9/11 Deniers

Swallowing George Bush’s account of 9/11 is as naïve
as believing in the tooth fairy just because your older sister told you so. Even if they were telling the truth, it
would be illogical to believe them, simply on statistical grounds.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

9/11 Evidence

The only evidence I am aware of that bin Laden masterminded 9/11 was a video tape
claiming responsibility. There were dozens of other fruitcakes also claiming responsibility. The head of German
intelligence said they had been monitoring Al Qaeda and it was a rinky dink outfit incapable of orchestrating
9/11. They have done nothing comparable since. There are dozens of unexplained
inconsistencies in Bush’s version of what happened, including why the towers fell faster than Newton’s
law for free fall predicted. Why then are all Americans so totally convinced bin Laden pulled this
off without any inside help?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

9/11 Exaggeration

Even more than a decade later, the media refer to 9/11 as the defining event in world
history. Yet if you think about it, it was pretty small potatoes compared with nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the
buzzbombing of London, the firebombing of Dresden, the bombing of Baghdad or the levelling of Fallujah.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

9/11 False Flag

After studying the evidence
for 15 years I have come to the conclusion that most likely Al Qaeda and Muslims had nothing to do
with 9/11. It was a false flag operation cooked up by American radical Christian neo
Conservatives designed to whip up hatred for all Muslims and thus justify invading, slaughtering Muslims and
stealing oil. The head of German intelligence said Al Qaeda were completely incapable of such an operation. Al
Qaeda has pulled off nothing comparable since, which confirms that assessment. Bush’s story is so full of
holes it even violates Newton’s laws of motion.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The 9/11 Miracle

The official story is a rinky dink, broke, untrained, terrorist outfit orchestrated the most complex terrorist
act in history, completely defeating the combined efforts of a multi-trillion dollar defence system using nothing
more than a few box cutters. How do you explain it?

Divine intervention.

Blind luck on the part of Al-Qaeda.

Gross incompetence on the part of the US military.

Inside help.

The whole story is a complete crock. It was actually done by someone with access to high tech, most likely
Bush himself as an excuse to start two wars and suspend the constitution with the patriot act.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

9/11 Oddities

It has been 15 years and 2 months
since 9/11. According the George W. Bush, Al Qaeda pulled of the most intricate terrorist
attack in history. There are still hundreds of unanswered questions about how Al Qaeda could possibly have defeated
the entire US military, without inside help, armed only with box cutters and how they managed to bring down the
three steel frame buildings (the first in history) with relatively small fires. Perhaps, the oddest thing is the
way Al Qaeda has not managed to pull off anything more impressive than the guy who set his shoes on fire ever
since. I would have expected them to attempt to pull off something even more spectacular, especially since the US
attacked both Afghanistan and Iraq, not like Cinderella’s pumpkin, turn into utterly inept amateurs.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

9/11 Perpetrators Did Pay

I have heard many Americans say, We have to make the people pay who flew planes into the
World Trade Center. Perhaps they don’t believe Bush, who said they did pay — burned alive in the
attack.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

9/11 Surprise

Between 1949 and 2001 the USA made over 200 unilateral, first strike attacks on various second and third world nations. How could they
possibly be surprised someone might get so irritated at being attacked that they would attack back on 9/11?

9/11 Was Not the Biggest Catastrophe

Even 15 years
later, Americans still act as if 9/11 were the worst catastrophe in history. They forget
America obliterated two Japanese cities with atomic bombs. They forget nearly every European capital sustained
worse damage in even a single night of WWII
bombing. Americans have grossly overreacted, invading two nations who had nothing to do with 9/11 and abrogating the majority of their constitutional rights. They fully deserve the moniker
The Excited States of America.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Abandoning Children

What kind of father or mother abandons their kids for a year at a time to go to Iraq or Afghanistan to hunt,
kill and torture children and their parents who are no threat whatsoever to the USA?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Aborting Killers

What if we could detect the genetic defect like the Aurora shooter and either abort him or correct the flaw in
the womb? The catch is you would also correct those guys who are first in line to enlist for the Iraq war too.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Accomplished Objectives

What objectives of the Iraq war have been accomplished?

Iraq war objectives

Confiscate Iraq’s oil. Americans speak of the war as an investment and
the oil fields as the return. Civilised people would call it the spoils of war.

Spend almost a trillion dollars on products and services from political contributors.

Leave a stable US-friendly puppet government in power.

Find and destroy WMDs (Weapon of Mass Destructions).

Weaken Islam.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

It is notable that the USA auctioned off Iraq’s oil resources to American and European oil
companies on the very same day Obama announced the troop withdrawal from Iraq. Clearly that was the day the USA
felt its true mission in Iraq had been accomplished. The public goals were accomplished within months or days.
Those were clearly not the entire set of goals or the war would not have dragged on and on the way it did.

Addicted to Killing

On 2010-08-18 the USA brought back 60,000 combat soldiers
home from Iraq, leaving 50,000advisors behind. Most of these
people have killed or tortured someone, including children. Such killing corrodes and twists the mind. For many
soldiers, the excitement of killing is addictive. 60,000 trained killers thrown onto the
streets of America without jobs! This is poetic justice for America turning a blind eye all these years to the
illegal Iraq war, justifying the carnage because Americans would prefer lower gas prices.

Impersonal killers are like drug addicts. The first time gives them the ultimate high and after that, no high is
as good.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Addiction to Power

It is hard to believe that men can become so addicted to power that they will mow down their own neighbours just
to cling to it. What a monumental egos these men must have to justify that.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Addled Americans

Americans have been so addled and lied to by their media they can’t tell the difference between a war hero
and a war criminal. Heroes defend and save lives. Criminals kill people for no reason. A case in point, Dakota
Meyer of Kentucky who chose to go on an all expenses paid safari to Afghanistan where he bagged 8 Taliban. The Taliban had not attacked the USA. Further, they had no means to even get there much
less attack. No Taliban were involved in 9/11. This was a straight forward aggressive (first strike) war. That is flat out illegal. Anyone who aids or abets in such a war has
committed a capital crime. Dakota Meyer is an admitted war criminal. Legally he is on par with a confessed serial
killer, mind you with lower probability of successful prosecution. Why did he do it? It certainly was not to defend
the USA. The pay was terrible. The conditions appalling. Surely it was not just a way to escape loved ones. There
are much easier ways to accomplish that. What’s left? He likes hunting humans the same way he likes hunting
squirrels back home in Kentucky. He gets a quasi-sexual thrill watching their heads explode. The US military
offered him immunity from prosecution for his future crimes that would have rated lethal injection back home. It is
revolting seeing the president touching the hand of such a pervert and trying to fob him off as a hero by awarding
him the Medal of Honor, dishonouring all true recipients of the past.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Advantage of War

The one redeeming virtue of war is that it helps kill off the sociopaths faster.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Advice to Psychopaths

Imagine you had a criminal mind. You fantasised endlessly about bullying, raping, torturing and/or killing. You
may focus on some particular gender or age of victim, or your desire to mayhem may be diffuse. You have to keep
this secret and your urges bottled up. If you let them out you have to be extremely careful that the combined
global police forces don’t track you down and lock you up. What can you do? The obvious solution is to join
the US military. You will be paid to do your favourite things. You won’s be punished and you will be,
strangely, highly respected by your fellow citizens.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Advisors

Kennedy fired up the Viet Nam war by sending 12,000advisors. Obama postponed ending the Iraq war by leaving 50,000advisors behind.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Afghan Aftermath

On 2012-05-30 the USA announced yet another push in Afghanistan. This is all so
pointless. When NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)
leaves, Karzai will last all of 15 minutes. This dragging on the war until after the
election is just procrastination of the inevitable to avoid embarrassing Obama. That is really sick, needlessly
sacrificing people on both sides of the conflict for domestic political gain. If the USA were serious about
democracy in Afghanistan, they would back a plausible puppet dictator, one who was not the biggest heroin dealer on
the planet and the world’s crookedest politician. Karzai must really suck to be worse than the Taliban.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Afghan Drugs

Listening to President Obama speak about his valiant fight in Afghanistan against drugs, you’d never guess
it was the USA and its corrupt Karzai puppet government that saw the drug trafficking jump from almost zero to the
#1 supplier of heroin in the world, producing over $1 trillion worth a year —
more than the entire planet consumes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Afghan Facts

The basic facts of Afghanistan are these: The USA plus Nato has tried for over a decade to conquer Afghanistan.
It has poured billions of dollars into it. They have installed the crookedest dictator on the planet as their
preferred leader. Even with all this effort, at best the US has managed a stalemate. When US and
NATO
leave, Americans claim that Karzai will prevail. That makes no sense. How could the war go better for Karzai
without help that with it? He will be hang from his thumbs or flee to hide in luxury on his drug money. The Taliban
ground down the Russians and they have ground down the USA. The Taliban are fighting for their country. Americans
can’t even tell you why they are fighting. The American troops have no motivation but the
pleasure of fighting. They have no delusions left their war has something to do with defending the USA.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Afghan Revenge

Somebody could write a short story about a pair of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan who burst in on an Afghan
family to bully them, forcing their daughter to dance forcing the mother to bring food. The mother brings tea and
all drink. Then the old mother shrieks with glee and drops dead. She has poisoned the tea with some high tech
poison she stole from the Americans. The daughter explains why and how her mother plotted revenge on these two
soldiers.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Aiding the Terrorists

What does a terrorist organisation need? recruits and money. The illegal invasion of Afghanistan is helping Al
Qaeda with both. The worse the US behaves with torture, banned weapons, killing civilians… the more recruits
and money pour into Al Qaeda from around the world from people horrified at American behaviour. It is thus
illogical to think the situation can be improved with still more torture, banned weapons and killing civilians. If
nine years of it did not work, why would even more help? It is literal insanity to try the same brutality over and
over expecting a different result. Ask the Russians. They occupied Afghanistan for a decade too, before they gave
up and went home.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Airline Terrorists

I can’t for the life of me understand a terrorist who blows up an airliner. It filled with people from all
over the world of all ages. About the only thing the passengers have in common is the money to buy a ticket or a
job that buys them one. What possible grudge could you have against that random assortment of people?

I can understand blowing up a military facility of soldiers who had bombed your village. I can understand
assassinating suspected war criminals. I can understand blowing up some poison gas factory. I can understand
blowing up a power plant or bridge of strategic significance. I can even understand an insane plot to blow up a
nuclear sub.

But killing random strangers is just plain nuts.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Airports

The first time you go to one of the larger airports in the USA such as Jackson Atlanta, O’Hare, LAX,
Dallas/Fort Worth or Denver it just blows you away. There are so many planes, so many maintenance people, so many
ticket people, baggage handlers, so many passengers, all the air traffic people, great tanks full of fuel…
It takes an hour just to walk to your next flight. Yet for the aerospace industry, commercial aircraft are just a
sideline compared with the amount they make on military aircraft, even when nobody is attacking. Somewhere else,
where you are not normally invited, there is an even bigger military aviation operation. It has bases spanning the
globe.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Al Franken Inconsistency

There is something a bit nuts about people like Al Franken who support the USO (United Service Organisations)
but claim to oppose the Afghan and Iraq wars. By making life in the field more pleasant for soldiers, fewer will go
home and stay there, thus prolonging the wars. You can’t have a war without soldiers willing to fight
it.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Al Qaeda Home

Al Qaeda has a presence in dozens of countries. They move from country to country. Where is the safest place for
us for them to base? — as far away as possible, say on the other side of the earth in Afghanistan or
Pakistan.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

All Space Belongs to Us

With the National Space Policy of 2006-08-31 the U.S.A. asserts sovereignty over all
of space, in that the Americans assert a right to deny access to space to anyone hostile to U.S.A. To enforce this
policy, the U.S.A. has developed and tested technology to shoot down other nations’ satellites and
spacecraft. The Chinese responded by developing their own anti-satellite technology.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

America = Nazi

The German people looked the other way when their country illegally invaded country after country. They rolled
over for the Nazis. This is to their eternal shame. Even a higher proportion of Americans did exactly the same
thing when the their country illegally invaded Afghanistan and Iraq. They imagined that disapproving was
sufficient. They behaved no better than the Germans. The Germans had more excuse. No American would have been shot
for resisting.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

America = Rome

The ancient Romans used to enjoy watching people being eaten by wild beasts. Modern Americans use napalm and
white phosphorus to torture and kill in one operation. The idea is to terrorise their victims into submission after
watching their children die hideous deaths. But the American soldiers found this treatment too rich for their
stomachs. To protect themselves, they invented unmanned drones like the Predator aircraft and the Northrop Grumman
Firescout, so they could murder and torture sitting on a couch slurping cokes and gorging on pizzas with no more
emotional involvement than they would have dispatching zombies in a video game. Americans are so full of themselves
they cannot see how they have become just more decadent than Nazis. The primary function of these unmanned craft is
to suppress compassion, regret and restraint.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

America = Rome

The citizens of ancient Rome did little work. They sponged off their colonies/provinces, taking the tribute as
their natural due as Roman citizens. They maintained this privilege with an unusually brutal and efficient army.
Americans are similar.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

America = Russia

It is rather hypocritical Obama berating Putin for committing a minor version of the same war crimes America
committed with the illegal invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. At least Russia has not yet tortured anyone or used
any banned weapons or carpet bombed civilians.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

America the Bully

Americans typically wage war by picking on a resource-rich country less than 1/10 its
size and attacking illegally without provocation. They primarily drop noxious things from high altitude on the
civilian populations and civilian targets such as hospitals, mosques and electric power stations, objects including
bombs, banned weapons such as DU (Depleted Uranium), white phosphorus, napalm and cluster bombs. The American rely on technology
including armoured vehicles and Predator drones so rarely risk face-to-face combat. American spend without limit on
a ceaseless torrent of the most advanced weapons, deluding themselves they need to do this to defend their
homeland. Yet they see themselves as heroes in these battles and wonder why they are tarred with epithets such as
The Great Satan and why even former allies look on in horror. They foolishly wonder why
the civilian populations don’t greet them with garlands. The answer should be obvious. What if an alien super
power ten times the size of the USA similarly attacked the USA? How would Americans react?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

America Created The Iran Problem

I am frustrated with Americans wringing their hands over Iran developing nukes when they are the ones who
created the problem. What do I mean by that?

Letting Israel have nukes and continually threaten its neighbours with them.

Bush threatening to annihilate Iran in his 2002-01-19SOTU (State Of The Union). What else could Iran do but obtain nukes to deter attack? Iraq did not have nukes
and was destroyed. North Korea did and was left alone.

The USA having a nuclear arsenal big enough to destroy the earth many times over. The USA is like a father
who smokes 8 packs a day and threatens to kill his son if he even smokes a single
cigarette.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

America Cursed

America is cursed forever. It is already well along its decline into insignificance. It brought this on itself
with barbaric, sadistic and totally unwarranted cruelty to the people of Afghanistan and Iraq. Almost no American
made even a peep to object. Americans were even more compliant with evil than the citizens of Germany were under
the Nazis. The entire population of America were tested and found wanting.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

America Fears Invasion, Get Serious!

Americans tell me they are killing people in Iraq because if they don’t kill them there, they will have to
fight them back in America. America attacked Iraq in the Gulf war, in the sanction bombings and in the Iraq war.
Never in all that time did Iraqis attack American civilians, just the soldiers illegally invading their country.
The Americans killed about 3 million Iraqis. Thus the Iraqis have plenty of justification
for levelling the USA. Americans must take responsibility for creating that revenge motive through their
unconscionable treatment of the Iraqis, including torture, rape, murder and deaths too hideous to describe.
Americans attacked first, unprovoked and illegally. Even Bush said Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Americans use this phony fear excuse to cover for the real motive for the war, that everyone
but the Americans acknowledges, theft of the Iraqi oil reserves. The American excuse is as preposterous as a mugger
who stole money then beat his unarmed victims to a pulp killing them, then claiming self defence.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Black Hole

Americans have no more conscience than the ancient Romans. Like a black hole, America sucks the entire earth dry
of natural resources, energy and food. The #1 health problem is gluttony. They send out
their legions across the earth seeking more to consume (Afghanistan for minerals and Iraq for oil) and lie that
they do it for altruistic motives. Unaware as piglets sucking at a sow, they offer no protest. There has not been a
peep of resistance since the Viet Nam war, and even that was motivated by a selfish (though eminently sensible)
desire to avoid the draft.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Blindness to Their Own Evil

Convincing Americans that they are committing crimes with their aggressive (first strike) wars against
Afghanistan and Iraq is just as difficult as it was convincing Germans their invasion of Poland was improper.
Americans believe and Germans believed they were the master race. By definition, anything they do is virtuous. It
is inconceivable to them that they could commit crimes. The herd mentality holds these delusions in place like
cement.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Cheek

Americans have incredible cheek to complain about 9/11 that killed 3500 people when they attacked Iraq unprovoked, on false pretenses, stole all their oil resources and
killed millions. Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan had any part in 9/11. Even Bush said it was
Saudis. Yet Americans rained terror on them that made 9/11 look like a picnic.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Civilians Killed

America has been butchering civilians in Iraq for 12 years and 11 months, claiming they are doing it to protect their freedoms. However, the Iraqis have killed
exactly 0 American civilians in all that time. The only freedoms Americans have lost were
those squelched by Cheney-Bush. The war is clearly a gigantic lie to cover up the cynical plundering of
Iraq’s oil wealth.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Cowards

It is amazing how many Americans admit to being so cowardly they want all Afghan and Iraqi children killed so
they won’t grow up and take revenge for what America did to their parents. At least they are honest enough to
admit America has given the kids cause.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Death Superstitions

Americans have a superstition, backed by law, that the bodies of Americans killed in war or their coffins must
not be photographed. Oddly, the superstition does not apply to those they have killed. I see this law as a way to
deceive the American people about the human costs of illegal wars. As a Canadian, the law does not apply to me. I
feel a duty to punch Americans in the gut with such photos to persuade them to stop treating war as a football
game.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Definition of Non-Proliferation

Americans claim they are dedicated to non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. What they mean is they want a world
where no one has nukes but them. This is not going to fly.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Denial

Almost every American old enough watched the US Air force pummel the residential sections of Baghdad to rubble
live on CNN (Cable News Network)
on the opening day of the Iraq war 2003-03-20. Yet most Americans will claim either the
USA almost never kills children or never does so intentionally. Who did they imagine was living in those apartment
buildings? The denial is revolting. It reaches Nazi proportions. The Nazis have far more excuse. Hitler at least
tried to hide his atrocities.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Denial

The denial of Americans is so powerful, that they will assert American soldiers have ever killed any children in
Afghanistan or Iraq based on a single propaganda photo of a soldier handing out candy or holding a child. They
ignore the fact they funded $1 trillion in aircraft, bombs, white phosphorus, napalm,
tanks, rifles… to pound these countries to rubble. They ignore the photos of bombed homes or dead children.
They will even ignore the televised deliberate killing of children during the killing of al-Zarqawi on the bombing
of the residential sections of Baghdad broadcast live on the opening day of the war.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Double Standard

Americans have no shame about the atrocious way their country treated the citizen of Iran, Cuba, Viet Nam,
Chile, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Haiti, Venezuela, Iraq, Mexico… because they have one set of ethics about how
they should treat Americans and another how they should treat non-Americans. How is that different from South
Africa’s old apartheid system, India’s cast system or Europe’s class system?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Exaggeration

American like to say that world history changed forever on 2001-09-11. This is a bit
of exaggeration from drama queens. Two buildings were destroyed by terrorists. In contrast, buzz bombs leveled most
of London in WWII. Americans leveled two entire cities with nukes in
WWII. American bombers razed two entire contrives Afghanistan and Iraq. In comparison,
9-11 is pretty small potatoes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Freedoms, My Ass

Americans tell me they are killing kids and torturing teenagers in Afghanistan and Iraq to protect American
freedom. That is blithering nonsense. Why do I think so?

Clearly, occupying Afghanistan and Iraq, routinely torturing detainees, using banned weapons to terrorise,
maim and kill civilians, raping and killing children interferes with the freedoms of the Afghans and Iraqis. Just
what is the infringement of American liberty that justifies this? There isn’t one. Further, there is no
infringement of any kind.

The USA illegally attacked both these countries, not the reverse. Bush-43 wanted to control their natural
resources — Afghan lithium and Iraqi oil.

Neither Afghanistan nor Iraq has ever attacked the USA and further neither have the means
to. They have no airplanes, missiles, tanks, trucks, drones, submarines or ships. All them have are a few
IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices)
— roadside bombs made in kitchens.

The US military brass are currently pulling out troops from both countries. Not a single general has
expressed a concern this will lead to Afghanistan or Iraq attacking the USA. There is no threat to US freedom now
and there never was one in the past either.

The bottom line. This business about protecting American freedoms is a total crock. There is
no evidence for it, just mindless repeated assertion. The government invaded to gain resources. Individuals
enlisted because they are psychopaths who enjoy killing or raping or bullying. Nobody was protecting
anyone’s freedom. America will have as much trouble living this down as Germany had living down the actions
of the Nazis.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Gall

Americans have incredible gall to term their victims in Afghanistan and Iraq terrorists A terrorist is someone who kills civilians an attempt to bully them into changing their
political opinions. The Americans killed about 200 times as many civilians. Further,
America illegally invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, not the reverse.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Hypocrisy

The hypocrisy of America never ceases to amaze me. At the end of WWII, at Nuremberg, they made up new laws and applied them retroactively to hang the
Germans. Then they broke those same laws repeatedly themselves, yet never permitted any American citizen ever to be
tried.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Hypocrisy

The hypocrisy of Americans never ceases to amaze me. They give medals to Americans who go on suicide missions,
but spit on anyone who resists American invasion the same way.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Hypocrisy

It is a triumph of propaganda and the power of language that most citizens of the USA have no problem when a
large powerful group, such as themselves, attacks and kills the civilians of some weaker group, but scream
terrorist when the weaker group retaliates by attacking and killing soldiers or
civilians of the powerful group. Surely killing civilians is terrorism no matter who does
it and killing combatants is war no matter who does it.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Justice

America has a two tier military justice system, similar to the one they had in the days of segregation. It works
like this:
If an American attacks another American unprovoked, that is a felony.
If an American injures an American attacker in the process of defending himself, that is not a
felony.
However, if an American attacks an Afghan or Iraqi unprovoked, that is liberation a
favour done for the Afghan/Iraqi, certainly not a felony, even though international law dating from the days of the
Nuremberg Trials says it is.
If an Afghan or Iraqi harms an American in the process of defending himself, that is a felony. It
also labels the offender a terrorist even if they never harmed any civilians.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Lies

I get so angry with Americans and their bigoted nonsense about Muslims, their bogus quotations from the
Qur’an, accusing Muslims of having an
irrational hatred for the USA. They forget America illegally attacked Afghanistan and Iraq without provocation and
killed millions and stole their oil and lithium, not the reverse. They remind me of Nazis with their nutty
vilification of the Jews, used to justify stealing their wealth and murdering them. A handful of people pulled off
9/11, most likely a false flag operation and Americans have used that to justify taking
out revenge on 1/6 of the planet, over and over and over, on people who had absolutely
nothing to do with 9/11.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Mass Murderers

In the sanction bombings between the Gulf war and the Iraq war, the USA killed 1.5
million Iraqis, mostly children. Thumbing their noses at the Geneva conventions, they destroyed water treatment,
sewage and electric plants and hospitals. The Iraqis were forced to drink sewage and they died of cholera.

In the first winter of the Afghan war, the USA starved to death 1 million Afghans,
mostly children by blockading all food and fuel imports into the country in an extremely bitter winter.

In the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the USA killed 246,000
Japanese civilians.

The 2004 tsunami killed 230,000 people.

In the blitz bombings of WWII, Nazis killed 40,000
British civilians.

The Tōhoku
tsunami killed 14,416 people with 11,889 people still
missing, presumably dead.

In the 9/11 attacks, 3,500 Americans were killed.
President Bush said Saudi suicide terrorists did it. Most Americans erroneously believe 9/11 was the largest distaste in recorded history. They believe it justifies ignoring the
constitution and international law to extract revenge. They also believe it justifies attacking nations that had
nothing to do with 9/11, if they have resources American wants. Since it was badly
hurt, America feels it has a right to hurt others a hundredfold, even if they had nothing to do with 9/11.

When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, it killed 2,395 Americans.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Military Spending

America spends almost as much on its military as the rest of the world put together. It spends just as much when
it not at war as when it is. Why? The general population are paranoid, but that is because they have been
manipulated. Part of the reason is simply bureaucratic bloat. Everything is secret so nothing can be questioned.
The oversight of Pentagon spending is so lax a trillion dollars went missing presumably
embezzled in the greatest heist of all time. It was reported only on the back pages of the New York Times. But the
real reason is corruption. Consider that Cheney was accepting residuals from Halliburton, even while he was in
office. George H. W. Bush was a major owner of the major defence contractor the Carlyle Group during the time his
son was president. These companies were awarded no-bid contracts. They were able to charge ten times the going rate
for goods and services. Other contractors gave contributions to senators and congressmen in return for votes for
weapons are not needed, or too keep obsolete weapons systems funded. I find it peculiar that the American in the
street imagines every penny of that expenditure is absolutely necessary for his survival. The average citizen is
far more likely to die as a result of crumbling infrastructure, poisoned water supply, leaking sewage treatment,
understaffed hospitals, contaminated food, dangerous materials recycling… than he would by a foreign
invasion. Yet he won’t spend a dime protecting himself from domestic dangers.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Misuse of the Term Terrorist

Americans use the word terrorist in a unique way. When Afghans kill invading US
soldiers, it is called terrorism. However, when US soldiers kill men, women and child
Afghan civilians it is not. This is the exact opposite of the usual meaning.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Nazis

Americans are doing the exact same thing in Afghanistan and Iraq, naming waging aggressive (first strike) war that they hanged the Nazis for at the end of
WWII.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Nuclear Policy

American military policy is to use nuclear weapons, first strike, against non-nuclear nations.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Paranoia

Even though the USA has not been defeated since the war of 1812, even though they
spend more on the their military than the rest of the world combined, even though they have military bases all over
the world, Americans still harbour a paranoid fear of tiny countries with microscopic militaries, e.g. Cuba,
Nicaragua, Grenada, Afghanistan, Iraq…

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Plutocracy

America is on track for a new cold war with the rest of the planet with other countries complaining that America
is aiding and abetting criminal activity by corporations. Americans have already embraced plutonics in favour of
democracy with the Supreme Court decision permitting corporations to legally bribe politicians in unlimited
amounts.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Scum Soldiers

Americans chastise me for holding US soldiers in such low esteem. It is so simple. They volunteered to kill
children who live in countries that the USA attacked illegally and unprovoked who were absolutely no threat to the
USA. There is no conceivable reputable motive for doing that. About 45% of their
casualties are children. There is no reputable motive for killing any of their other victims either. What I find
amazing is that the majority of Americans are in deniable of these obvious facts. They justify the carnage as
revenge for 9/11 even when they know Afghanistan and Iraq had nothing whatsoever to do
with 9/11. That is crazy talk.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Scum, American Soldier

He gave his life to defend his country. What utter BS! First he was in an aggressive
war against a country 1/10 the size of his own. There was no defence
involved! He was helping steal resources. He was getting his personal jollies hurting people. Second, he
lost his life, involuntarily. He did not give it. He was not a suicide
bomber.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Self Deception

Americans have made such a habit of self deception that nearly all of them believe it is a noble enterprise to
go on a safari to the other side of the world to hunt children, so long as they do it under the auspices of the US
military.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Shame

Hitler invaded Poland, France… unprovoked. George W. Bush invaded both Afghanistan and Iraq unprovoked.
What about 9/11? Bush himself told us the World Trade terrorists were Saudis — not
an Afghan or Iraqi in the lot. Hitler refrained from using poison gas, having experienced it first hand in.
Don’t. Bush used a variety of banned weapons including white phosphorus, napalm, cluster bombs and land
mines. Hitler set up puppet provisional governments in his conquered territories and declared those who opposed
them terrorists. Bush set up corrupt drug and war lords as his puppet dictators in both Afghanistan and Iraq and
declared those who opposed them terrorists. The Nazis starved and worked their own Jewish citizens to death. The
American routinely tortured their P.O.W.s. Germans built hidden rooms in their houses to shelter Jews. American
teabaggers waved guns at rallies to intimidate immigrants. The Nazis were hanged using newly created laws against
war crimes. Bush, Cheney and Obama have not even been charged with the capital war crimes that they are brazenly
guilty of, namely aiding and abetting an aggressive war, not to mention scores of
violations of the Geneva Conventions. Hitler lost his war. Bush/Obama could not possibly lose theirs (in the sense
of America being invaded) with its unlimited budget and population 20 times that of the
countries it attacked. Oddly, Americans consider Hitler unspeakably evil and the American presidents 100% blameless even though in many respects the American crimes are more serious. Like a fungus,
patriotism rots and deforms the mind

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Terrorists

If a group of American soldiers plan an attack on a village, perhaps with a bombing mission or a drone attack,
or a mortar attack and kill 200 civilians as a result, how is that any different from a
terrorist in the USA planting a bomb that kills 200 civilians? Americans see the first as
honourable and the second as almost the greatest crime imaginable. The only difference I can see is, in the first
case, the Americans are the culprits and the second, Americans are the victims.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Terrorists

When the USA was defending itself against Japan, it killed Japanese civilians by the millions. They never called
themselves terrorists, yet when Muslims do the exact same thing on a much smaller scale to defend their homelands,
the Americans invariably call them terrorists.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Traitors

America tortures prisoners, without trial, and even without charge. As surely everyone knows, this is
unconstitutional. But nearly all Americans pretend not to notice. This includes people who protest for preservation
of second amendment rights. This includes people to enlist for military service which might include torturing such
prisoners. These people remind me of the Germans who were so blasé about the death camps. The Germans had a
bigger excuse. Those camps were secret. These Americans who refuse to defend the constitution are traitors. They
don’t deserve to call themselves American.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Treaty Breakers

Americans believe, like Hitler, they may invade whomever they want, even though they have signed a treaty
agreeing not to invade unless attacked. They justified attacking Afghanistan on the grounds bin Laden might have
been hiding there and kept up the attack even after they were quite sure he was no longer there. Oddly they did not
similarly feel compelled to attack Pakistan when they located bin Laden living there. Why? Pakistan has nukes.
Pakistan does not have a pipeline route. Pakistan does not have a $1 trillion a year
heroin trade.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Treaty Breakers

Americans believe, they may invade whomever they want, even though they have signed a treaty that trumps the
constitution agreeing not to invade unless attacked. You might say then that Americans are a nation of
outlaws.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Values

Americans are extremely proud of their family values:

They never attack anyone unprovoked, unless they have oil and a nasty dictator.

They never torture or used banned weapons except in an emergency such as the enemy might not like us for
attacking them and stealing their oil and might fight back effectively some day.

They endorse harassing and persecuting gays as the national sport because bull baiting is cruel.

They encourage the spread of Christianity, (whose primary values are child molesting and gay persecution) by
making listening to its promotional material mandatory and by suppressing any science which contradicts it.

They celebrate overconsumption of goods, services and food to punish the lazy poor of the world further with
deprivation.

Oil is the root of all evil, so they work feverishly to convert the remaining supplies into
CO₂
greenhouse gas.

Americans consider posterity a pack of deadbeats wanting a handout from the current generation who own
everything. So they punish them with massive public debt and leave them with a hopelessly polluted world with no
easy energy sources left.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Villains

Just like the Germans in WWII, the Americans don’t realise they are the
villains in the Afghan and Iraq wars.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American Vincibility

Young American males like to argue that the USA is the world’s only superpower, therefore they can do
anything they like. No one can stop them. Might makes right.

I counter, the USA spends more on the military than the rest of the world put together, but it is far from
invincible. Two tiny countries, Afghanistan and Iraq fought it to a stalemate. Iran, North Korea and Venezuela
stick out their tongues in ridicule. China produces far more energy than the USA. China manufactures far more than
the USA. The EU has a larger population and greater economic activity.

The USA is up to its neck in debt to the rest of the world. It is racing toward bankruptcy, trying to finance
its energy-guzzling lifestyle by borrowing money. They are stuck in an economic slump, pinned there by corrupt
politicians and corrupt corporations. As America gets weaker and weaker relative to its rivals, Americans are going
to wish they had not behaved like such blustering bullies, thieving natural resources. The rest of the world will
not forget or forgive the USA. On top of that the USA is falling back into medieval superstition. A majority now
reject the science upon which her wealth and dominance was based.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American vs British TV Coverage

It is interesting to compare American and British TV coverage of a bombing in Iraq. From the American report you
would get the impression the bombing was a random killing of ordinary civilians. From the British report, you see
it was an attack on the buildings and employees of the puppet collaborator government. Americans like to project
the notion their foes are irrational. It makes genocide seem more like pest control.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American vs Nazi

Who is worse, the Nazis or the 21st century Americans.

Who is worse: Nazis or Americans

Issue

Nazis

Americans

Governance

run by a dictator

Run by elected representatives including president. The constitution is frequently ignored.

Illegal first strike wars

Attacked most of Europe and the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics).

Attacked Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.

Deaths

Killed 6 million Jews in concentration camps, plus the military deaths plus the civilian deaths in
bombings.

Killed 3 million Muslims mostly in bombing and bioterror.

Geneva Conventions?

Largely conformed.

Considered them quaint.

torture of POW (Prisoner Of War)
s?

rare

routine

National cult of superiority?

Targeted civilians?

Used land mines?

Used banned chemical weapons?

Pretended provisional governments were democratic?

Imposed religious beliefs on the conquered?

Illegally targeted sanitation and
water treatment to cause cholera epidemics?

Pretended their aggressive wars were for self defence?

Political assassinations?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

American War Crimes

I have the utmost contempt for Americans who justify the actions of the US military in Afghanistan and Iraq
claiming the soldiers are torturing, violating the Geneva convention, killing civilians, supporting the drug and
war lords and generally behaving like Nazis, motivated by a desperate self defence. They pretend to forget the USA
started both wars, attacking both Afghanistan and Iraq unprovoked and under false pretenses to boot. Recall how
Bush justified the attack on Iraq with fabricated WMD (Weapon of Mass Destruction)
evidence. Americans are in Iraq because Americans desperately need oil, not because Iraq would or could invade the
USA. This is claim is as ridiculous as mugging old ladies in self defence.

They periodically flagellate themselves in penance by voting Republican

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Americans Are Attached to War Crimes as Strongly as Nazis

I would have thought it would be much easier to talk Americans out of committing war crimes and atrocities than
Nazis, since their information sources are much less tightly controlled, but they have proved equally resistant.
Both are utterly convinced of their virtue. No evidence to the contrary has any effect. It is like religious mania.
If Americans do it, by definition it must be good, even torture, even child rape, even child
dismemberment.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Americans are Subject To International Law

Over and over I remind Americans they are not immune to international law even if the USA currently refuses to
recognise the authority of the world court. I remind that aiding and abetting an aggressive (first strike) war such as Afghanistan or Iraq is a capital war crime. That was the only
charge used to hang all the Nazis at the end of WWII
at Nuremberg. Americans typically react with fury, as if I had taken the law into my own hands and had executed
these war criminals myself. If they are tried, imprisoned or executed, I won’t be the one doing it. I am
giving them information to help them stay out of hot water. They are just angry they can’t
legally kill whomever they please with immunity and I am an easy target to take their frustration out on. Elephants
get mean when they are blocked from mating. Americans get nasty when anything interferes with them killing
kids.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Americans Behaving Badly

There is a documentary series on the history channel called Ancients Behaving Badly. It documents
the atrocities of people like Genghis Kahn, Alexander the Great, Caligula etc. I could imagine some future version
of this show featuring the USA in the early part of the 21st century. The thing that would amaze viewers is that
Americans of the time did not see themselves as cruel at all. Even though they had full access to the facts, the
extreme nationalism of the time made Americans interpret atrocity as heroism.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Americans Have No Right To Complain

Americans have no right to complain the Pakistanis did not find bin Laden for them. After all, the Americans had
high resolution satellite imagery and surveillance drone photos the Pakistanis did not have.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Americans as Mad Bronson

Imagine one of those Charles Bronson revenge flics where the plot goes like this: Somebody kills Bronson’s
wife. He can’t find the guy who did it, but he is pretty sure the guy was a Lutheran. He then sets outs to
kill 100 Lutherans a day for at least 15 years. He starts out
just mowing down entire congregations with a machine gun, but then he shifts to torturing them to death en masse in
his secret dungeon and using terror weapons banned even in warfare including radioactive and biological weapons,
attempting to violate every principle in the Geneva Conventions. Oddly, the news media fall in love with his
romantic quest and call him a hero fighting for justice. Bronson is a Vulcan compared with the over-the-top, insane
revenge response to 9/11 that Americans are indulging in.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Americans Refrain From Eating Infants

To understand the American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, view Richard Attenborough’s Planet
Earth the episode where the males in one troop of chimpanzees attack the females and infants of a h
neighbouring tribe. The big difference is the Americans don’t eat the infants they kill.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Americans Sound Like Nazis

If you listen to interviews of Germans to lived through WWII, you will discover they thought they were defending their homeland. Americans
believe similar nonsense about their aggressive wars against Afghanistan and Iraq.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Americans Testing Psycho Weapon on Themselves

Imagine a new class of weapon that makes your enemies go nuts and start killing each other. It looks as though
the Americans have developed such a weapon and are testing it on themselves.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Americans vs Nazis

Americans are shocked when I compare their unprovoked invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq with Hitler’s
invasion of Poland, even though by some measures, Americans behaved even worse:

Routine torture of P.O.W.s.

Use of banned weapons, e.g. napalm, white phosphorus, cluster bombs…

Higher ratio of civilians to combatants killed.

Total tonnage of explosives.

Ignoring the Geneva conventions.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Americans vs Nazis

It is a bit of a joke to compare someone to the Nazis simply because they share one attribute in common e.g.
massive lying, or wearing brown shirts, however, in a number of way the Americans have behaved even worse than
Nazis in their Afghanistan and Iraq wars:

Use of illegal chemical weapons: white phosphorus and napalm.

Routine torture of all detainees

Dragging war on endlessly: 15 years and 2 months
for Afghanistan and 13 years and 8 months
for Iraq.

Use of illegal cluster bombs

The two are similar in that they:

Attacked other nations unprovoked.

Targeted civilians with bombs.

Bamboozled their people to supports such bad behaviour with massive propaganda.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Americans vs Nazis

Which country is more admirable, A or B? Country A invested heavily in military technology, far in excess of
other countries. Country A held its citizens without trial and tortured them to death. Country A attacked other
countries unprovoked to take control of their natural resources. Country A when occupying a country, used group
punishment and terror to ensure compliance. Country A was a master of propaganda and disinformation and considered
this a primary tool of warfare. Country A believed themselves vastly superior to those they conquered and imposed
their religion and culture on them. Country B tortured its own citizens on a much smaller scale, though did all
those things too and in addition thumbed its nose at the world court, killed primarily civilians and children in
its wars, used banned weapons and routinely tortured all POWs (Prisoner Of Wars). If you picked A, you picked Nazi Germany. If
you picked B, you picked the USA.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

America’s Big Lie

Everyone on American TV, including newscasters, commentators and comedians conspires in a giant Nazi-like lie, a
lie like the one used to deny the holocaust, to both deny that America did anything illegal in attacking
Afghanistan and Iraq and to deny that the USA attacked both these nations without provocation. Ordinary American
citizens are complicit by, to a man, parroting the lie even though they nearly all saw America attack Iraq on
CNN
with unprovoked bombing of the residential sections of Baghdad on the first day of the war. They sat around their
TV sets, cheering, much as Nazis cheered the invasion of Poland, in a burst of misplaced team spirit.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Ancient Chemical Warfare

The Dick Cheney of the ancient world was Solon, leader of Athens. He killed everyone in the city of Kira by
poisoning their water supply with hellebore, a plant with poisonous alkaloids in its roots.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Andy’s Submarines

I once worked with a mild mannered guy named Andy on a telecommunications controller that evolved from a Univac
1616 military mini used to control nuclear submarines. To my astonishment Andy expressed
a desire to write software for nuclear submarines. To him, they were just giant toys. It did not dawn on him in the
least that the function of these submarines was to wipe out life on earth.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Angel Us

It is amazing how many people who, with a straight face, tell you their country bombs and invades other for
their own good. Even more will tell you that soldiers and weapons have a primary function of ensuring a peaceful
world. This so naïve.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Animal Fights

Most male animals fight. It is just they avoid auxiliary weapons and killing the young and females. Further,
they rarely fight to the death, just long enough to determine who is the stronger.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Another View Of Pearl Harbour

In WWII, Pearl Harbour was not quite a Roosevelt claimed.
The US had imposed an embargo of oil and machinery on Japan. The attacks were no surprise. The military might of
the USA was just scratched by Pearl Harbour. America sacrificed 100,000 American lives in
response to the 2,500 lost at Pearl Harbour. The incendiary and nuclear strikes on
Japanese civilians are among history’s biggest war crimes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Anti-American

People often accuse me of being anti-American. It is true I believe the Viet Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq wars are
inexcusable and I detest with extreme passion anyone who supports them. Unfortunately, even the most progressive
Americans still blindly support the troops even when they commit atrocities. I also hold America in contempt for
allowing the health care industry to corrupt its government and to refuse health care to so many citizens. I lived
in San Francisco for 6 months in 1985. Almost none of my
friends could afford health care, even though all were employed. It horrified me that they went without even the
most basic health care. However, there are some Americans I admire. Ones you
may have heard of include:

Dr. Noam Chomsky

Rep. Barney Frank

Al Gore

Bill Joy

Martin Luther King

Dr. John Cunningham Lilly

Bill Maher

Bill Moyers

Dr. Carl Sagan

Keith Olbermann

Gore Vidal

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Anti-Rape Device

The only weapon I could think of that would discourage war would be a device a woman could use to quickly remove
the penis and testicles of her rapist, damaging the organs so they could not be reattached. Surely the American
soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan could have no objection to their widespread distribution.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Antisemitism

In 1948 anti-Semitism was rampant all over the globe, not just in Nazi Germany.
Religious fanatic Jews who called themselves Zionists yearned for their own country, a theocracy, where they could
feel safe. They decided to invade Palestine, a country prominent in Jewish history millennia ago. None of these
people’s ancestors had ever lived there, but Zionists convinced themselves they had holy title to the entire
country and the Palestinians were squatting on it. Major powers like the USA and Britain egged the Zionists on,
because they wanted a way to get rid of their Jewish citizens. The Zionists won their war and effectively enslaved
the Palestinians and set up an apartheid state. Over the years, Israel spend lavishly buying and threatening the
politicians of the world so that most people on earth saw the Jews as the persecuted party. The Palestinians and
their Arab neighbours wanted to oust the Zionist invaders entirely, but did not have the military might to do it.
So they decided try for a compromise, where the Palestinians would be given back a small piece of their original
land to run as their own country. Israel is run by extreme right wing politicians who reject the partition and
promote genocide of the Palestinians as the only viable long-term solution. What bothers me most is the Jews who
live in Israel are convinced they did absolutely nothing at all to harm the Palestinians. Jews are 100% blameless. They believe the Palestinians are to a man insane and attack Jews for utterly
no reason. Such is the power of state propaganda.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Apologising for Sadism

Apologists for military sadists excuse them on the grounds they naïvely
believe they are serving their country by protecting it from invasion. Yet when the troops get to Afghanistan or
Iraq, surely it must be immediately obvious that America is the aggressor and that neither Afghanistan nor Iraq has
or ever had the means to attack the USA. Yet they re-enlist anyway. They do it because they so enjoy raping,
torturing and killing.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Apologists for Torture

Apologists for torture argue the there should be no investigations and no prosecutions because the criminals to
performed the torture felt justified in breaking the law. We should let bygones be bygones, look forward, and focus on the present. Their argument applies equally well to disbanding the
entire criminal justice system. We prosecute, not just to punish past crimes, but to deter future crimes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Apology to Omar

We (the US and Canada) ignored every relevant law on the book in dealing with Omar Khadr. We
wanted him punished, primarily for being Muslim, the law be damned. I can understand this in the blind panic after
9/11, but not it the sober light of the Canadian supreme court more than a decade later.

The way I see it, he did nothing wrong, morally or legally. The USA invaded Afghanistan illegally (by aiding and
abetting an aggressive (first strike) war). That made the invaders guilty of a capital
(hanging offence) war crime. Killing invaders in self defence is a duty in the moral code subscribed to by the
majority of Canadians. What is even crazier is the embarrassing lack of evidence that child soldier Khadr ever
killed anyone. The damning evidence is merely a confession extracted under extreme duress at the notorious Guantánamo
prison.

We are going to owe Khadr a massive amount of compensation when the dust finally settles.

Individual Canadians are free to apologise now on behalf of our country no matter what Harper (or even the
supreme court) thinks.

It is not personal. Canadian and American politicians merely need a poster boy to prove they are good terrorist
fighters. The American ones further needed to prove they were good Muslims-hating Christians. By ignoring the rule
of law, politicians, in general, have behaved shamefully. In contrast, from what I read, Omar’s behaviour
while incarcerated was beyond reproach.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Appeal of Hockey

Hockey teaches the values of violence. It is popular because it appeals to audience sadism. Nobody in the hockey
business gives a fig about the corrupting affect on those it touches.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Approval ≠ Legality

Just because the US and Canadian governments and most of their citizens refuse to acknowledge that the Afghan
and Iraq wars are illegal and aggressive (first strike), does not make them legal, any more that Nazis approving of
their own actions made them legal.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Arms Caches

An astounding number of Americans say they demand the right to stockpile weapons for a coming armed
insurrection. Some thoughts:

In nearly any other part of the world, plotting to overthrow the government is considered sedition or
treason, a very serious crime.

Why are foreign terrorists fought tooth and nail with torture and assassination without trial while domestic
terrorists are allowed to run for office?

If you are going to overthrow a democratically-elected government, you will replace it with something else
such as a dictatorship or a theocracy. This means you are a fascist at heart, hardly something anyone admits
to.

If your goal is to refight the civil war, would it not be wise to try a referendum to separate first?

If the USA splits up, it will no longer be #1. It will dominated by other nations. After the way the USA
treated them when it was #1, it is unlikely they will treat the USA gently.

If the South splits off as its own country, how will it be different? Christianity only? Slavery restored?
Gays broken on the wheel?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Arms Dealers to the World

Americans sells more arms to the world than any other country — ten times more than second place Russia.
So Americans are kidding themselves when they imagine they are peacemakers.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Arms Race

Historically, all arms races ended in war or bankruptcy of one or both players. One problem with a nuclear arms
race is it forces the losing player to skimp on safeguards in order to afford to keep up.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Arms Race

You can see a pattern stretching back to antiquity. Every decade, military men invent ever more lethal,
terrifying and cruel weapons. Even when the weapons are considered unspeakably horrible, they eventually end up
being used. Massive military budgets and technology have accelerated this evolution, through war, peace, boom and
bust. What is the end point of this progression? the extinction of man. We are utterly nuts to march toward a goal
nobody, not even war-profiteering Republicans, wants.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Army Chaplains

The function of an army chaplain is to salve the conscience of soldier who is having second thoughts about
torturing, killing civilians or raping children. His job is to convince the soldier by cajoling and lies that he is
doing the right thing and should continue. This way the soldier will continue his war crimes. A chaplain is thus
lower than a child prostitute pimp.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Assassination with Drones

America is using assassination with predator drones rather too casually as its main instrument of foreign
policy. They have forgotten their own history of what happens when someone is assassinated — Abraham Lincoln,
John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King. Overnight, the victim turns into a saint and everything they ever said holy
writ. Prior to his assassination, Kennedy was a hot-heated, womanising twit who just about started a nuclear
war.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Asshole JFK (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

I was furious with JFK
in the Cuba missile crisis of 1962-10-14. The Russians had moved nuclear missiles into
Cuba pointing at the USA. The USA had previously moved nuclear missiles into Turkey pointing at the
USSR. JFK
threatened nuclear war if the Khrushchev did not remove the missiles. Kennedy was not prepared to concede anything
in return. I was only 14 years and 8 months
at the time, but to me, the solution was obvious. Each country should remove its missiles. Everyone would save
face. Everyone would be safer. War would be averted. Thankfully Khrushchev backed down. The public did not find out
until 2012 that Kennedy did indeed agree to remove the missiles from Turkey, but only on
the condition the Soviets keep it secret. If they leaked this, the missiles would stay. Kennedy was a
testosterone-crazed asshole. He risked destroying planet earth so he could play John Wayne. He has been treated as
a saint. He was an irresponsible lunatic. But thankfully, he was not a total idiot.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Astonishment at Revenge

It is so odd that Americans feel affronted and astonished when Muslims make even token attacks against them. Why
would Americans expect Muslims to meekly accept a decade of pounding and the routine torture of
POWs
and the butchery and of millions of their civilians? An attack almost always invites a counter attack. Americans
are so conceited and so clueless that they imagine the terrorist attacks are just madness, without rational motive.
They conveniently forget all their trespasses against the Muslims of the Middle East, including two illegal,
first-strike, unprovoked wars.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Attacker Advantages

A flaw in the universe is that attackers have certain advantages:

They get to choose the time.

They get to choose the place.

They get to concentrate their forces.

Thankfully, satellite and drone surveillance is diminishing that advantage.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Attacking A Cat

Consider what is happening when you corner a domestic cat. It hisses and spits at you. What is it thinking?

Does it plan to steal your freedoms?

Does it plan to make you take up a new religion?

Does it plan to kill you?

Obviously, it is terrified of you, especially if you are carrying a club and threaten to pound the cat to pulp.
It is merely trying to scare you off from attacking it. I contend the Iranians are very much like that cat:

Bush announced in his axis-of-evil speech that he was going to annihilate Iran.

Obama has not rescinded that national goal.

The United states is many times larger, richer and has far more advanced weapons. It a fight, Iran would
clearly come out no better than the cat.

The USA has already pulverised two Muslim countries, routinely tortured, raped children and worse. The USA
has a reputation of attacking others unprovoked. Its threats are credible.

If you were in Iran’s position, what would you do to protect yourself? Only nukes seem to deter the USA.
It leaves North Korea and China alone. Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan had nukes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Attacking Iran

Israel wants to attack Iran. Life is not exciting enough? Now, they have to go pick fights with countries much
bigger than they are. Attacking Iran is not like bullying a little unarmed country like Lebanon or Gaza. Iran has
rockets, planes, missiles, bombs and maybe even nukes. Iran has friends — Russia and China. Its sunburn
missiles can sink a destroyer with one shot. It can block the Straits of Hormuz thus strangling most of the
world’s oil supply. Obama does not need yet another war, especially one that jacks up gas prices, in the
middle of his re-election campaign. He will cancel Israel’s $4 billion a year
allowance if they pull this meshugge stunt.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Attacking ISIS

The USA is relying on occupied Iraq to fight ISIS for them.
This makes about as much sense as Hitler relying on occupied France to invade Britain for him. You can’t
expect your enemies to fight on your behalf.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Attacking Pakistan

What would have happened if Pakistan had noticed the US Strike force going after bin Laden. They may have
presumed it was the USA or India attacking them and in a fit of pique launched a nuclear counter attack. Obama made
a huge gamble because the payoff was his reelection.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Attacking Syria

In deciding whether to attack Syria, there are two main issues:

Just how wicked is ISIS? Just how big a threat are
they to whom? They are obviously a serious threat to the middle east, but not to Canada or the USA.

Is what Canada is planning to do, (namely bomb random civilians) going to do more good than harm? Will it
have any significant effect deterring ISIS? Is
there something else Canada could do that would work much better?

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has focused only on the first issue and totally ignored the second. For pity sake,
killing ISIS’s victims just helps
ISIS! Military people suffer from the
delusion that killing random people is the universal fix for any problem. Consider how many times random bombing
has been tried, only to make the situation worse.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Attacking Those Who Don’t Trust Bush

It is amusing to watch how supporters of the Bush view of what happened on 9/11 have
changed their attacks over time on those who do not trust their story:

Conspiracy theorists only have evidence for holes in the official theory. They don’t have a consistent
theory of what did happen.

Conspiracy theorists have changed what they had to say as new evidence came to light.

Conspiracy theorists have no interest in the evidence.

Conspiracy theorists are dogged and never change their minds. They think they know everything and nobody else
knows anything.

Conspiracy theorists believe in all manner of nutty conspiracies. Anyone who believes in any conspiracy is
crazy.

Conspiracy theorists conspired and made everything up because they hate George Bush.

You can see most of these attacks in the History Channel documentary 102 Minutes that Changed America /
Witness to 9/11 that mocks the conspiracy theorists.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Autoattack Weapon

Imagine a weapon that made its victim mistake his own body as something foreign attacking him. He would scream
in terror at his legs, bite off his hands, shoot off his foot and crush his own testicles… This is a
metaphor for the fracturing and paranoia going on America today.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Axis of Evil

On 2002-01-29, in his SOTU
axis of evil speech, transcript
George W. Bush announced America’s intention to destroy the axis of evil, namely
Iraq, North Korea and Iran. Iran had no chance against America with the largest and best equipped military on the
planet. What were they to do? The only thing that could conceivably hold off the USA is a nuclear deterrent.
Nuclear missiles worked for North Korea. Iran is trying them too, but since it can’t possibly deliver a
missile to the continental USA, it has to bluff a nuclear strike capability against America’s proxy in the
region, Israel, instead and hope the USA cares enough about Israel to call off the attack on Iran. Iran further
made it clear they could easily block the Strait of Hormuz and hence freeze 40% of the
planet’s oil shipments which would cripple the USA. To me, all this was inevitable once Bush announced his
attack plans. Oddly, for most Americans, Iran’s behaviour seems baffling and irrational. Americans refuse to
take any responsibility for helping create this messy and dangerous situation. You can’t announce your plans
to murder someone and expect them to take it lying down.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Baby Hunting

You might wonder what sort of sicko would travel half way round the earth to stick a baby to death with a
bayonet, to go hunting humans with the same casualness he might shoot squirrels. Ask any kid. That person started
out as a school bully. He as also a coward. He wants victims who cannot fight back.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Backing a Crook

As of 2011-06-30 Americans have spent $4 trillion
dollars on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and that is not counting lifetime care for the injured vets. What do they
have to show for that massive expenditure? A stalemate! The man they are backing in Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has
proven himself to be one of the planet’s most crooked politicians and its biggest drug lord. Americans are
panicking about the deficits, but oddly refuse to even consider reducing the massive military spending for
optional, illegal, non-defensive wars.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Bad News

The bad news is all male humans have something in common with our ancestors, even right back the creature who
was the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees. We enjoy forming small gangs with other males, making surprise
attacks on other groups including women and children and killing them. The good news is, in modern society, even
with modern warfare and criminal gangs, we do it only ¼ as often as we did when we were hunter
gatherers.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bait and Switch War

The Afghan war was a classic bait and switch. Bush started the war ostensibly to catch bin Laden. It quickly
come clear bin Laden was not in Afghanistan and by the US military’s own estimate there were less than
100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Did the war stop? Nope. Bush redirected it against the
Taliban, presumably to wrest from them the prize of prizes, the Saudi Arabia of lithium (and
other strategic minerals) and to revive the trillion dollar a year heroin trade the Taliban had utterly
squashed.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bald Women

Americans seem surprised that people who acted as translators are becoming personae non grata in Afghanistan and
Iraq. Surely they knew this was coming. When the German occupation of France ended, the French viciously turned on
the collaborators, even prostitutes. Surely you have seen the newsreels of collaborator women with their heads
forcibly shaved.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Banned Chemical Weapons

If you are an American, have a look at this
picture. Through your taxes you paid
American soldiers to torture this child to death with illegal chemical weapons in an illegal war. How should the
soldiers who did this be punished? What would be a fair punishment for your part in the crime? This is just the tip
of the iceberg. Your country has performed countless acts of extreme cruelty in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars
— depravity that rivals the ancient Romans. How can you possibly claim to be proud of your country?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Barack the Sham

Unfortunately, Barack Obama turned out nothing like the way he presented himself during the election. He force
fed rich stockbrokers and bankers with a trillion dollars of public cash that they used to pay themselves
extravagant bonuses. He made no changes to the leverage or transparency rules to prevent the need for another
bailout. He legally accepted large amounts of money from the health care insurance companies prior to the election.
In return, he did nothing to help universal health care along. He greatly escalated the Afghan war. He spent more
on the military than any president in history, more than all other countries combined. His views on torture and war
crimes match the ultra-right views of Cheney’s and the Nazis accused at the end of
WWII. He refused to speak up for gay marriage rights. He left don’t ask don’t
tell in place and has continued to dishonorably discharge gays in the military. It is possible he caved into
terrible threats to his family from the military and industry, however, it is even more likely he was their puppet
all along. Like Reagan, industry picked him as their Democratic spokesperson because he was a good actor and
orator. He is such a disappointment, nearly everyone, myself included, are still in denial.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bashar al-Assad

Bashar al-Assad is such a miserable excuse for a human being. He has killed so many people and created so much
misery all over the planet. What is the matter with Obama that he does not send a drone through his living room
window and be done with him and his buddies?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bashar al-Assad

Bashar al-Assad, the dictator of Syria, is such an evil man. Not even Hitler used poison gas, much less on
children as he does. I can’t think of anyone more deserving of an assassination by drone.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Basic War Fact

Americans don’t seem to understand that when they attack a small country, within a decade, the American
people will get tired of the war. The people they attacked will never give up. Unlike the Americans, they have a
dog in the fight — freedom from American domination.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Battle Centenaries

I protest governments hosting celebrations of the centennials or sesquicentennials of battles. What are these
really for?

Breast beating over ancient victories.

Stirring up hatred for old foes.

Glorifying war to sell current illegal wars.

The people involved are long dead and forgotten. These ceremonies are not about remembrance or grieving.

We should grow up and stop dredging up old grievances. It is unseemly as a wife who rehashes every lifetime
slight every time she has an argument.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Be Wary of the Military

A wise society recognises the downside of the military. Anyone exposed to it becomes callous and comes to enjoy
killing and creating misery for its own sake. You don’t want to make Israel’s mistake of putting every
citizen through military indoctrination.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bees and the Bear

Bees may not be able to stop a bear from ravaging their hive, but they can make him uncomfortable enough he
leaves early and thinks twice before another visit. Recall Hitler and Czechoslovakia. The world backed off
completely and let him have his way. Similarly it let Putin annex the Crimea without any resistance. There are
shades of grey between doing nothing and all out nuclear war. We should at least have made life awkward or
unpleasant for Putin.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Behaviour Of Criminals

I have watched hundreds of interviews with Nazis, American war criminals, general criminals and third world
dictators. I have come to two conclusions:

If one group of people gain absolute power over another, they inevitably physically and sexually abuse their
victims.

Criminals are always convinced that they are innocent. They always come up with some rationalisation why
their evil deeds where justified or at least that they had no choice.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Beheading

If you behead a boy with a sword or by dropping a bomb from 1.52 km(0.95 mile)
he is just as dead as if you behead him with a sword. They are both equally sick crimes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Beheadings

ISIS is not only barbaric but stupid.
Beheadings just get the civilian populations of USA and Canada riled and even more willing to devote troops and
material to squash them. Religion has acted on ISIS’s brains like toxoplasmosis, making them foolishly
unafraid of superpowers.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Being a Raindrop

Trying to stop war with a website is a bit like being a raindrop trying to put out a forest fire. The raindrop
has the consolation that all wild fires eventually are put out, mainly by the concerted action of raindrops.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Beneficiaries of War

The only people who have benefited from the Afghan and the Iraq wars are wealthy investors who have sold goods
and services to the USA military at inflated prices with no-bid contracts. Other wealthy investors benefited from
the oil and lithium spoils of war. Yet, oddly, for the first time in US history, the wealthy have been able buy the
Republican politicians so the rich did not have to pay even a penny extra to fund the war. It was funded on the
backs of the middle class and by borrowing.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Best Defence

Given that a weapon capable of destroying a city will fit in a suitcase, I would think the best defence would be
to avoid abusing as few people or countries as practical to the point of wanting to kill you.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Betrayal

It is curious that people consider betraying one’s country such a serious crime. Would betraying Nazi
Germany have been a crime? There is no a priori reason to believe that your country invariably has the moral right
on its side. You have to examine on a case by case basis. Oddly, most Americans consider it treason to fail to
cover up for war crimes committed by Americans, though they would not approve of the same behaviour from other
nationals.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Biblical Killing

It is so biblical the way Bush and Obama both love to obliterate the families of the men they assassinate.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bigger Not Always Better

Most citizens think a bigger military will protect their democracy, but it can work the other way, as in Chile
in 1973-09-11 when the Chilean military overthrew the government.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Biggest Procurement Ever

Steven Harper wants to make the biggest procurement in Canadian history of 65 F35
fighter jets. Just who would Canada fight with these weapons and what weapons would the enemy be using? The USA is
one candidate, but these jets would be no match to the American’s overwhelming numbers of even more advanced
jets. Incursions on Canadian sovereignty will mostly likely be oil drilling rigs and ruggedised cargo ships
disputing Canada’s claim to jurisdiction. F35s are not an appropriate response.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bigots are Motivated By Malice

Usually people are motivated by hope of some benefit, e.g. money, sex, fame, entertainment, comfort,
family… Sometimes they are motivated by desire for revenge, e.g. many Palestinians would like to kill off
the Jews who invaded and evicted them from Palestine, but underneath that malice is the positive intention to
simply have the Jews get off their back. However, bigots are motivated purely from malice, with no benefit to
themselves. Consider what benefit comes to a Taliban terrorist who kills girls who dare to seek an education? What
benefit comes to a Christian who votes to block marriage equality? What benefit comes from treating some race or
nationality as second class citizens?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

bin Laden Consensus

It is so part of the consensus assumption, that you have probably forgotten that you have yet to see any
evidence that bin Laden pulled off 9/11, much less pulled it off without inside help. You
just trusted Bush when he told you the evidence was solid but classified (the same as his solid but classified
evidence for WMDs
in Iraq).

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bioweapons

You can make a case you need to develop biological weapons in the lab so that you can create defences for them,
but it is insane to stockpile them. By far the most likely victim of them is yourself.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Black Civil War Soldiers

1,778,975 black soldiers fought for the union in the civil war. For the first year
they were not paid. Had they not fought, the United States would be two countries today and one of them would be an
apartheid state like Israel.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Blaming All Muslims

Americans blaming all Muslims for the crimes of Osama bin Laden (and all those who helped with 9/11) is just as ridiculous as blaming all Christians for the crimes of Timothy McVeigh.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Blaming Muslims

Blaming all the world’s Muslims for 9/11 is even sillier than blaming all the
world’s Christians for Hitler.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Blind to the Causes of 9/11

Nearly all Americans believe they were 100% innocent and blameless for 9/11. Some consider the possibility of inside help or a false flag operation but very few study how
it might have happened as an unfolding of natural political forces. They fervently believe it came out of nowhere
without motivation, other than irrational hate or envy. Americans almost never study why others hate them or what
wrongs they have committed to generate that hate. The problem is Americans are filled with religious conviction
that they can do no wrong. This makes them blind.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Blind Leading the Blind

The expression the blind leading the blind comes from WWI (World War I). Soldiers blinded by
poison gas attacks would be lead around in chains, each soldier with his hand on the shoulder of the soldier in
front of him.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Blinded by Patriotism

Blinded by patriotism, it never occurred to the Germans to look on the Nazi soldiers as criminals until after
the war, according to Leni Riefenstahl, the young woman who made Hitler’s propaganda film Triumph of
the Will. The same holds today for Americans.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bloody Greeting

You’d think returning US soldiers would at least have the decency to change out of their blood-stained,
DU-contaminated camouflage gear before greeting their families.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bloody History

History plays out like a bad boy movie with bluster, bullying and bloodshed.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Blowing Money on the Military

Canada’s plan to drastically increase military spending are foolish for a number of reasons:

No one has attacked Canada since WWII. Just who are we afraid
of?

If Russia or China decided to attack, our little contingent of F35s would be no deterrent.

If someone wanted to take over Canada, they would buy it piece by piece with Harper’s blessing. It
would be a lot cheaper than a war.

F35s have too short a range and can’t handle Arctic weather making them useless for Arctic patrol. Use
satellites or drones.

The F35 is designed for Afghan-style aircraft carrier based aggressive wars, i.e. tagging along on US
resource wars. We are far better to spend the money to prop up our economy.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Blowing Up The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

If someone blew up the CIA
building, you could make a case it was not terrorism, but rather a justified act of self defence in war. The
CIA
has become a military organisation. The drones blowing up families in Pakistan are piloted from the basement of the
CIA
building. Terminating those drone pilots would be as justified as shooting down a bomber. Assassinating drone
pilots in their homes would be equivalent to bombing pilot barracks in WWII. I don’t think Obama has thought through all the consequences of his strong
reliance on drones.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Boeing Ad

Boeing advertises its military aircraft make our forces safer and strongerWhat does
that mean, really? It means they enable the military to bomb more civilians per dollar with fewer lost planes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bogus Reasons to Attack Afghanistan

When I ask Americans why they are attacking Afghanistan I get two basic answers:

To protect our freedoms. They seem to forget that Afghanistan had no part in 9/11.
The alleged hijackers were Saudis. Afghanistan has no interest in or means to attack America. They just want
Americans off their backs.

To kill the Islamic people in Afghanistan because Islam is a terrible religion that oppresses it own people.
We must rescue people from the evil of Islam. They don’t seem to understand this would require killing
everyone in Afghanistan. Surely Afghans should enjoy the same freedom of religion that Muslims enjoy in the USA.
Pro-war folks want to take that freedom away from them. Ironically, Americans falsely claim Islamic people kill
anyone who isn’t a Muslim, when Americans want to kill anyone in Afghanistan who isn’t a Christian or
American collaborator. Afghans have defended themselves against illegally invading American soldiers, but have
not harmed any American, Canadian or British civilians who were not in Afghanistan as part of the war effort as
part of the military.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bogus Self-Defence Claim

Bomb Your Way to Popularity

There is no way you can bomb someone into liking you. Every blow you strike in offence will eventually be paid
back with interest. Americans are insane in their belief that if they kill enough children and torture enough
teenagers that their victims will give up hating America and plotting revenge.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Boston Marathon Overreaction

On one hand, the flat-out effort to catch the Boston Marathon bombers did manage to catch the culprits in a
remarkable five days. There were lockdowns, business closures, transit shutdowns, cellphone shutdowns, gunfights.
There were 1000 lawmen. This was an extremely expensive manhunt and one that grabbed the
24/7 attention of the media. The problem I have with all this public fuss is if you imagine how the proceedings
looked through the eyes of a young would-be terrorist with sympathies for America’s victims or a disaffected
young American who has a chip on his shoulder against all humanity. He would see the manhunt as glorious martyrdom,
a chance to grab the US eagle by the tail, terrorise it and shake it silly. What a heroic Bonny and Clyde way to
die! In contrast, when the Russians deal with terrorists, they do their best to appear unperturbed, invulnerable
and implacable. They don’t want to give the satisfaction to the terrorists of having had any measurable
effect. My other concern is, if police have killed both suspects, we will never find out about the motive, funders,
trainers and other plans for terrorism.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bought-Off Politicians

If you oppose the Afghanistan and/or Iraq war, there only a very few places in the USA where there is a
candidate running who says he wants to end either war, even though almost half of Americans think that way. The
reason is the defence industry has bought off, threatened or blackmailed nearly every
politician, including president Obama. This is similar to the fate of a German living in Hitler’s Germany,
where there was no one to vote for who did not favour world domination by war.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Boys and Toys

On 2014-07-17 Russian separatists shot down Malaysian flight MH17 killing all
298 people on board. But why? What possible benefit could come from murdering a random
collection of tourists and AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome)
researchers? I have two hypotheses:

A bunch of undisciplined yahoo soldiers did it for the same reason people smash mailboxes with baseball bats.
They had a toy and they used it without thinking about the consequences.

A bunch of undisciplined yahoo soldiers wanted to shoot something. They did not have the means to tell a
military aircraft apart from a civilian one. They had a toy and decided to shoot the airliner down just because
they could.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

BP the Terrorist

Al Qaeda no longer needs to launch major attacks against the USA; they have outsourced it to BP.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Brace For Counter Attacks

Americans are naïve
to think they can attack two nations unprovoked, torture and butcher civilians all without any counter attacks.
Americans are in such denial they insist on calling any counter attacks terrorism (even
attacks on occupying American soldiers) and calling any POW
s captured, terrorists. A terrorist is someone who kills or threatens civilians hoping
to change their political opinions. By definition, killing a soldier is not terrorism. Americans are the main
terrorists given how many civilians they have killed, mostly children and how many soldiers and mercenaries they
have hired to terrorise civilians.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bragging About A Criminal Past

American male politicians commonly brag they have committed a capital crime. The voters are duly impressed by
this bloody-minded confession. I refer to aiding and abetting (aka serving in) an illegal aggressive (first strike) war such as Viet Nam, Afghanistan or Iraq. This trumpeting is even more
bizarre than a female politician bragging about how many abortions she has had.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Brandishing Weapons

In the USA, it is legal to parade around with weapons. But in Afghanistan it is a crime punishable by summary
execution by drone.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Breaking Agreement

The illegal American occupation of Iraq has been going on for 13 years, 8 months and 20 days, since 2003-03-20. America signed a treaty
agreeing not to attack other nations unless attacked first.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Breaking Up Fights

When two children are fighting, they don’t usually want an adult to break up the fight.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bribed Collaborators

Americans bribed Iraq collaborators to betray their country with promises of American citizenship and jobs that
pay well in US dollars. On pullout, the Americans reneged on those promises. The collaborators are now in hot water
without the Americans to protect them from their fellow citizens. I have no sympathy for them. People should not
sell out their countries to foreign plunderers, especially when they killed them for money.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Brilliant General

Someday the terms brilliant general and brave soldier will
sound as oxymoronic as brilliant serial killer and brave child
rapist.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Britain’s Broken Promise

In 1938, Britain broke its treaty promise to Czechoslovakia to defend it against
Germany. Had it kept its promise, it is possible WWII
could have been averted. It would have poured cold water on the Hitler’s and Germany’s breast
beating.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

British Betrayal

In the war of 1812 the native people allied themselves with the British to protect what was later to become
Canada. The British promised them their own country if Canada was saved. The British reneged on the promise and
left the native people to the genocidal policies of the Americans.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

British Grenadiers

There is a cheery song Canadian children are taught to sing in school The British Grenadiers. It
celebrates a class of soldier who rips the limbs off people with explosives.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Budgets For Science vs War

The most expensive project in interplanetary exploration was the 1997$3.8 billion Cassini probe. In contrast, the war in Iraq cost $9
billion a month.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bullies

Bullies usually work in gangs. They pick on those much smaller than they are. They are relentless; the bullying
of a particular victim goes on for years. Bullies steal from their victims. They jeer at the victim for some
perceived difference and use that (e.g. race, religion, sexual preference) to select victims. When challenged, they
justify their bullying on the grounds of self defence. Bullies usually have a dominant sadistic leader with a
number of sycophantic followers. Bullies have no sense of fair play in their fights. They enjoy concocting new ways
to torment and terrify. Remind you of anyone? the USA and gang in its treatment of Afghanistan and Iraq for
example?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bullshit Justifications

I just about throw up when Americans try to claim they invaded Afghan and Iraq, occupied them for over a decade,
killed hundreds of thousands of people, set up puppet dictatorships, spend a trillion dollars — all purely
out of altruism to give the people of Afghanistan and Iraq democratic freedom. Americans are the stingiest of all
the developed nations. The are too cheap to even provide vitamin A capsules to prevent blindness that costs only a
few cents. There is no way they are going to spend $1 trillion just to be nice.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bullying the Americans

Starting with the Monroe Doctrine 1823-12-02 the United States has been bullying the
Americas and a considerable chunk of the rest of the world. The United States attempted the genocide of the
indigenous people and are gradually making restitution. How long until it gets squeezed for the bullying those
outside the country?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bureaucratic Squabbles

The NSA (National Security Agency)
has transcripts of all of bin Laden’s telephone conversations, but will not let the
CIA
have any information from them. It sounds like the NSA
considers the CIA
a greater threat to American security than Al Qaeda. Who is NSA
protecting, bin Laden and his fellow conspirators inside and outside the USA or the USA?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bush Admin Lies

Back in 2003, I saw all the top Bush administration people lie through their teeth
about having 100% solid irrefutable evidence that Saddam had bioterror, chemical weapons,
sarin, ICBMs (Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles) and would have nukes any day now. It turned
out there were no WMDs
of any kind. The Italians warned Bush his Niger data was forged. The French warned Bush Saddam could not possibly
have been buying yellowcake from Niger because they had a contract to buy 100% of it.
Bush sent Ambassador Joe Wilson, a life long Republican, to Niger to investigate. He reported back that the
evidence was a forgery. Bush expected Wilson to play along with the lie, but Wilson went public. The Bush
administration then punished Wilson by outing his wife, Valerie Plame, a CIA
agent hoping that would result in her death. Wilson later wrote a book
The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife’s CIA Identity: A Diplomat’s Memoir

It turn out all the evidence was from an anonymous, alcoholic Iraqi code-named
Curveball whom the Bush administration gave $40,000 a month to provide lurid
tales about Saddam and intelligence. They never met him. They never cross checked what he had to say. Why? They did
not want information. They wanted exciting, plausibly deniable stories they could use to justify invasion.

What’s more, the entire FOX news crew all lied too, claiming they had just seen 100% solid proof, that no sane person would fail to find completely convincing, when in fact Colin
Powell had presented no evidence at all at the U.N.. He just made lurid assertions about the danger of not going to
war and then said Trust me. It is interesting to revisit the old news casts, armed with
the knowledge they were all lying, to see the various tics that would have given them away if back then we were
open to the possibility the entire administration and media could all corroborate on a monstrous lie. You can see
the clips in the video
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Bush Conspiracy Theory

George W. Bush’s conspiracy theory of what happened on 9/11 is one of the most
preposterous offered.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bush Depravity

In terms of depravity (child rape) and total numbers tortured, Bush and Cheney surpassed most of the Roman
emperors. Part of the reason is they got their jollies indirectly through written reports and video tape (which
judge Hellerstein unsuccessfully tried to subpoena). They rarely got the opportunity to enjoy hands-on sessions.
This second hand mayhem was unsatisfying for them, which lead to extreme escalation, much the way Hitler went off
the deep end.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bush Protected from Prosecution

George W. Bush admitted in his autobiography Decision Points
to authorising waterboarding, though not yet to torture like that of the Iraqi POW
tortured by the Americans in the photo to the right or the much-photographed torture at Abu Ghraib under the
command of the sadistic Janice Karpinski. This is illegal both by American and international law. Yet no one has
yet had the balls to prosecute him. Even in WWII, Americans did not torture
the Nazis, not even the SS, when surely there was much more justification. Iraq has never attacked the USA and had
nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11. Even Bush admits this.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Bush’s Child Porn

Everyone has forgotten Gannongate. There was plenty of evidence Bush was
into homosexual military kink. History may prove to us one of the reasons Bush started and prolonged the Afghan and
Iraq wars was to ensure his supply of custom snuff kink child pornography. This is not just speculation. Bush
refused to hand over his child rape and torture tapes to Judge Hellerstein. This would not be the first time a
leader’s sadism lead his entire country astray.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Business ⇒ War

There is a trillion dollar set of businesses that depend on continuous war for their profit. Now, with the
Citizens United supreme court ruling, those businesses can buy politicians with whatever it takes to keep the wars
rolling. Business will permit a change of war venue as a sop to the voters, but not cessation of war.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

But What About 9/11?

Americans are furious with me when I point out that aggressive war (attacking first,
unprovoked) is a capital war crime, in particular the unprovoked invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. They respond
But what about 9/11? Even President Bush said that bin Laden
and his Saudi Al Qaeda henchmen, were responsible, not Afghans or Iraqis. On 2003-09-17, Bush and his administration explicitly stated Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Attacking Iraq is like attacking the USA for something Colombian criminals allegedly did, on
the grounds both nations are nominally Christian. Americans have justified their carnage with a racist belief that
the only good Muslim is a dead Muslim, blaming a billion people, including the children, for the 9/11 crimes of a handful.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Butchering Parents

There is a scene in Dexter, a TV show, where a
serial killer stabs Dexter’s mom to death in front of Dexter as a child. It is gut wrenching. In real life
this happens every day in Iraq and Afghanistan where parents are butchered in front of their children at the hands
of Americans, with all manner of weapons. I can never forgive them for this. These are deeds evil beyond
imagination.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Butchery over Taxes

Americans went mad and lined up and shot each other by the tens of thousands in the civil war. They consider
this a holy experience and the butchery on both sides a noble achievement. What were they fighting over? Freeing
the slaves, nope. It was taxes. They were butchering each other over taxes. I think the participants were fighting
mindlessly, purely out of team spirit.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Buy Your Enemies

I think war is becoming obsolete. It is cheaper and safer to simply buy your rival’s countries out from
under them. You can even do it on the installment plan. You not only take their territory, you get their
infrastructure and work force intact.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Buzz Cuts

The military buzz-cuts recruits to intimidate them, destroy individuality and make them more obedient. Recruits
must submit to this if they want to get to kill people, but why do civilians shave their heads bald and erase their
individuality?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Canadian Lies

In the Canadian leadership debate on 2011-04-12, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff and
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper both told two mega lies:

The Afghans like being occupied and would be disappointed if we left.

We are in Afghanistan to bring democracy.

If the majority of Afghans welcomed the invasion, then the war would have been over in months. How could a
minority of Afghans have prevailed for 15 years and 2 months
against the combined might of the majority of Afghans, the USA, Canada, Britain…?

We have imposed dictator Hamid Karzai on the Afghans. He is the biggest drug lord on the planet. He is the
world’s most corrupt politician. He imposes draconian Shari’a
law, (e.g. whipping women), the same as the original Taliban government did. There is no way you can characterise
that as bringing democracy.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Canadian War Criminals

Canada officially pulled out of Afghanistan in 2011, but that does not let them off
the hook for their illegal occupation prior to that. All of the Canadian soldiers who aided or abetted that war are
guilty of a capital war crime, namely aiding and abetting an aggressive war. May they all
hang or rot the rest of their lives in prison!

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Canusans In Denial

I hold Americans and Canadians in extreme contempt who acknowledge that their countries drop bombs on cities in
Afghanistan and Iraq, who acknowledge these cities are demolished to rubble, but refuse to acknowledge that doing
so kills large numbers of civilians and children. They are as deliberately blind as Germans in the time of
Hitler.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Captain America Is A Nazi

I don’t like the popularity of Captain America. It is part of the Nazification of the USA. Just as in Nazi
Germany, there is a rise is considering a brutal conquering military as admirable. There is a rise in America uber
alles sentiment.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Cause of Nuclear Proliferation

The number one reason for nuclear proliferation is fear of attack from an existing nuclear nation. Iran fears
Israel because it has nukes, has made first strikes in past and has threatened nuclear attack. Iran and North Korea
fear the USA for the same reason. If we are serious about preventing nuclear proliferation, the number one priority
has to be reducing the arsenals of the existing nuclear states.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Cease Fire

For a cease fire, you need unanimous consent. To break a cease fire, all you need is one hot head. Therefore, we
should require multiple systematic violations before we consider a cease fire failed.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Celebration of War

Why are politicians so willing to spend money or celebrations surrounding the war of 1812 or WWI
when nobody who was involved is still alive?

They are trying to glorify war in general.

They are hoping the pageantry, costumes, music and glory of the past wars will help justify today’s
less glamorous wars and justify military spending.

They get a childish pleasure gloating about old victories. Canadians like rubbing in the fact they defeated
the Americans and burned down their White House. Canada did not even exist at the time. It was a war between the
USA and Britain. They close their eyes to how their friends the current generation of Americans or Germans might
react to this gloating.

They think there is something virtuous about holding onto resentments forever.

They like playing at war without the danger. They are like baboons beating their chests and waving bloody
bones, feeling ever so manly.

They like to justify wars with the old lie they are primarily about protecting Canadian freedoms. That only
applied in WWII.

They feel sad about the short lives of their ancestors and wish to imbue their pointless deaths in war with
some glorious meaning.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Censorship

If you point out on a TV network blog that the aggressive (first strike) Afghan or
Iraq wars are illegal, or than aiding and abetting them is a capital war crime, your post will be pulled.
Apparently those who control the TV networks want the public to support the wars and to believe they are both
legal.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Charities for War Criminals

If somebody volunteered to build homes for disabled Nazi war criminals, I doubt CNN
would be fêting them as heroes. Yet when volunteers build homes for wounded American war criminals, it
does.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Chasing Soldiers Home

Not a single general or politician has expressed concern the Taliban or the Iraqis will chase the US or Canadian
soldiers back home if troops withdraw. Why are they so sure?

The Afghans did not chase the Russians home when they withdrew.

Neither the Afghans or the Iraqis have any equipment or money to mount an invasion.

We started the fight, not the Iraqis and Afghans. They just want us off their backs. It would be madness to
finally expel us then restart the war.

Canada and the USA have overwhelming resources to repel an attack.

So where do soldiers get off claiming they are killing kids in Iraq and Afghanistan to protect the freedom of
Americans and Canadians? That is a monstrous lie. They are killing them because they enjoy killing. The US and
Canada fund their mayhem because they want the natural resources in Iraq and Afghanistan. These soldiers are not
heroes. They are, to a man, war criminals because aiding or abetting an aggressive (first
strike) war is a capital (death penalty) offence. They do not deserve to be honoured on
Remembrance Day.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Cheating Soldiers

Colombian soldiers have been murdering civilians, then passing them off as dead rebel soldiers. Why? They get a
few days off for each extra corpse they bring in, paid by the military as a killing incentive. Soldiers are the
lowest form of life on the planet.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Cheering Alexander

To this day the Greeks cheer Alexander and his sadistic conquests. Romans still reenact the bloody conquests of
Imperial Rome. British and Americans celebrate the genocide of the indigenous people’s of North America.
Germans hailed the Nazi hordes. So it is no surprise the Americans cheer on their soldiers in two illegal wars
against two militarily insignificant nations, Afghanistan and Iraq.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Chemical Weapons Users

What countries use chemical weapons in warfare? USA under Johnson, Nixon and Bush, Iraq under Saddam, Iran under
Khomeini.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Cheney the War Criminal

Cheney is an admitted war criminal. He brazenly committed a number of capital war crimes. His goal is to
persuade the people he had the right to violate the law because he thought it was a good idea. It one thing to
lobby to change the law and quite another to demand to be excused from it. It will be a sad thing if Cheney dies of
natural causes before he is prosecuted and ideally executed.

Child Killer Heroes

Clifford Olson, serial killer, the beast of BC, murdered 11 children. 9 child kills would be unremarkable for a Canadian or American soldier and yet they are still
celebrated as heroes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Child Killers

The leaders of Hamas and Israel out of frustration at not being able to kill each other, kill children. These
leaders all deserve death by hanging, drawing and quartering.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Child Killers

The most horrible thing that can happen is for someone to murder your child. Soldiers do this so casually for
the most trivial of motives because they get a kick out of it.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Child Killers Hug Children

One of the creepiest scenes I see commonly on TV is a little girl racing into the arms of her father, still in
camouflage gear, fresh from a war zone where he was murdering and quite possibly raping children only days
earlier.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Childish Behaviour

The world’s leaders behave in such a childish way. They kill women and children using banned weapons that
injure and kill in a maximally painful and hideous way. If these leaders behaved this way in their families, their
wives would immediately leave and child protective services would take away their children. They have no restraint,
no moral code. Dark emotions run them.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Choice of Profession

Soldiering is a selfish choice of profession for a family man. He deserts his family for months at a time. If he
gets PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), he abandons his rôle as father.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Choosing The Target

On 2013-07-01 terrorists plotted to set off three pressure cooker bombs on the lawn of
the BC legislative assembly in Victoria, a few kilometers from where I live. The few hints the media have given
suggest the terrorists wanted revenge for Canada’s rôle in attacking and occupying Afghanistan. What
Canada did was illegal and utterly shameful. I can thus understand their desire for revenge, but what a bone-headed
choice of target! Victoria is the anti-war capital of Canada, a city of mostly retired people. Why go after them?
They had nothing to do with that filthy war. Why not hurt someone who had some remote connection with the war, like
George Bush who arm twisted Jean Chrétien
into joining it? Why not Steven Harper who cheerlead it and dragged in on as long as possible? Why not the soldiers
who signed up for the fun of bullying, butchering and torturing innocent Afghans who were no threat to Canada? If
terrorists insist on killing random civilians, why not at least pick on ones who voted for the war, such as the
Albertans?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Christian Medallions

With official sanction, US soldiers hand out Christian medallions at checkpoints in Iraq and Afghanistan. The
Taliban use this as proof that the US intends to interfere with their religion. Imagine the effect if occupying
Muslim soldiers handed out Islamic medallions.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Christian Republican

A Christian Republican is a contradiction in terms. For a Christian, war is supposed to be a last resort. For a
Republican, it is the first priority.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Christian Soldiers

Why does the military want Christian soldiers and reject non-Christian recruits?

They are happier to kill Muslims.

They believe that killed people don’t stay dead, so it is not such a big deal to kill someone.

They believe they will be rewarded after death for killing. Therefore they are willing to take bigger risks.
This is just a lighter version of the 72 virgins.

They agree with the consensus that gay people are the proper targets for hazing.

Christians have been trained all their lives not to question authority. That transfers to the military
hierarchy.

Christians are proven gullible boobs. They will believe any nonsense the military chooses to tell them
without questioning it.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Christopher Hitchens Was Wrong

The late Christopher Hitchens claimed the Iraq invasion was justified on the grounds Islam is an odious religion
that causes its adherents to treat each other and their neighbours badly. I disagree:

Nobody has a right to convert anyone else by force.

Killing men, women and children willy nilly is a strange way to demonstrate American moral superiority.

Starting a crusade in the most secular Arab country makes no sense. Why punish the least guilty?

That claim is just an excuse to steal oil from the Iraqi people. A thief salves his conscience by vilifying
his victims.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

CIA
Spies

In Pakistan, the CIA
posed as doctors doing an immunisation program to spy on bin Laden. This was a stupid, short-sighted thing to do.
Now immunisation workers are being killed as CIA
spies. And of course, thousands are children are going without polio and other vaccinations. And even in North
America, people have become fearful of vaccinating their children.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Civil Rights Should Remain Inviolate

If you permit the authorities to violate civil rights in secret in the pursuit of terrorism, you automatically
OK violations for any other purpose.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Civil War Soldiers

There are thousands of photos from the American civil war. I had imagined the war was fought by fat old walruses
with flowing beards, but the soldiers were mostly skinny young men in their teens and twenties.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Civil Wars

The really nasty wars where hundreds of thousands of people are killed are civil wars. When innocent children
are killed, maimed and tortured it is everyone’s business to put a stop to it, not just the citizens of their
country where nearly everyone has gone temporarily insane.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Cleaning Up the Gene Pool

The bright side of pointless conflicts like the Iraq war is that the most sadistic and stupid members of society
sign up to become maimed, disfigured, shell shocked and killed, thus taking those vicious genes out of the pool. At
the very least, these types are blocked from breeding for their term of service.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Clinging to the Past

People who keep dredging up WWI
and WWII
remind me of harpy wives who bring up something foolish their husband did on their honeymoon every time they have a
fight, even 60 years later. Give it a rest already!

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Cognitive Dissonance

Soldiers will tell you they love killing people to fight for freedom and they
don’t like the government telling people what to. Yet there is nobody with fewer rights than a soldier. They
are all but slaves. And further nobody gets pushed around and screwed by the government more than they do. Like
slaves, they are not necessarily free to go, even if their contract said they would be on a certain date. This is
what psychiatrists call cognitive dissonance.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Collaborator Traitors

Now that US soldiers are leaving Iraq, collaborators are getting nervous about reprisals from their fellow
citizens. The way I see it, these people are traitors. They sold out their country to make a few bucks. The USA
promised the world to the collaborators without any intention of delivering. The collaborators were stupid and
greedy enough to believe the Americans. They deserve what ever misfortune comes their way.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Collateral BS

Imagine if Al Qaeda killed 30,000,000 American civilians, then bin Laden announced
that none of those deaths counted since they all were collateral damage. Al Qaeda, as devout Muslims, did not
intend to kill those people. The unfortunate folk just got in the way when Al Qaeda demolished
buildings. Al Qaeda had after all warned those people to evacuate the cities. As proof of their good faith, they
were building 50 schools to teach the word of Muhammad, Peace Be Upon Him. That is how
silly American protestations of innocence sound outside the USA.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Collateral Damage

If you go shooting rabbits in a field where kids are playing and you kill twenty kids as collateral damage, you are still guilty of murder. Soldiers claim this reasoning does not apply to
them.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Collusion is No Excuse

When a gang of thugs beats up a man and steals his watch and wallet, pleading innocence based on the fact that
there was consensus about beating up the man, would get nowhere. Similarly the coalition of the coerced are just as
guilty of aggressive war against Iraq for its oil and Afghanistan for its minerals as the
USA would have been had it acted alone.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Colonial History

If you study colonial history you see some familiar patterns. A technologically advanced power starts by
convincing itself the people inhabiting the target territory are subhuman. Then they slaughter them. They then take
their resources. Then they enslave them. Then when the financial returns are not worth the bother, they leave and a
massive fight for power ensues. The Americans started the process by improperly referring to Iraqi or Afghan
citizens as terrorists, even though they had not killed a single US civilian.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Combating Terrorism

Studies of terrorist groups over history shows they survive an average of 8 years. They
fade away for a number of reasons, but rarely because of military action. The problem is military action increases
local recruitment. It is like trying to put out a fire with gasoline.

Common American War Criminals

The American people have accumulated a huge amount of bad karma by passively acceding to the illegal, unprovoked
invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, torture, the abandonment of the Geneva conventions of war, the targeting of
civilians and the use of banned weapons such as depleted uranium, cluster bombs, white phosphorus, napalm and land
mines. The American people accumulated even more bad karma than the Germans under Hitler. The Germans had two
excuses that the Americans did not have.

Hitler hid most of his atrocities from the people. Americans, in contrast, sat around their TVs on
2003-03-20 eating popcorn, cheering and watching as American aircraft bombed the
residential neighbourhoods of Baghdad, thus targeting mainly children. Americans were as decadent as any ancient
Romans. I was with some Iraqi ex-patriates at the time at a TV station. They were screaming and crying as they
saw the homes and apartment blocks of their familiar neighbourhoods blown to bits. They felt Bush had betrayed
them. He promised liberation from Saddam, and now he was attacking Iraq’s children. I will never forgive
the American people for their callousness on that day.

Had the Germans protested, they would have been tortured and/or killed.

The Americans have behaved so badly, I don’t think they deserve to continue to exist as a nation. On a
subconscious level, they seem to acknowledge this. They are committing mass financial suicide and are dismantling
their democracy.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Comparing Monsters

ISIS likes to cut civilian’s
heads off with swords. America likes to decapitate civilians, separating the head from the body by using explosives
dropped from 9.14 km(5.68 miles)
or delivered via drones.

ISIS like to stone women to death.
America like to kill women by burying then in rubble from buildings demolished by using by using explosives dropped
from 9.14 km(5.68 miles). ISIS
is more dramatic and gut-terrifying, but America is more ruthlessly efficient in killing the most civilians most
quickly.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Comparing Nazis and Americans

If you read about someone who lived in Germany during WWII
and they claimed, I think these world domination wars are a bad idea, but I support Hitler and
fully support the troops in everything they do. you might think this guy had a terminal case of denial. You
would say, You can’t support people prosecuting a war if you don’t agree with the
war. This guy makes no sense. However, this very stance describes the majority of
Americans. They are all flipping nuts. This craziness seems to make sense to them only because they hear it over
and over on TV.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Condition of Ending Wars

I suspect the Afghanistan and Iraq wars will only end once America starts a new war(s) at least as costly.
Halliburton, Xe (Blackwater), Carlyle Group, General Electric and friends would not permit it any other way.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Conditioning

You know your soldiers are sufficiently conditioned to follow orders when you can ask them to line up. The first
goes and stands by a stake. The next twelve form a firing squad. They kill the soldier at the stake and throw his
body into a trench, then the lead member of the firing squad goes and stands by the stake and the next soldier in
line joins the firing squad, repeating the cycle every 15 seconds.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Confessions Under Torture

Anyone who has read about the medieval witch trials understands that confessions under torture are meaningless.
Oddly, the US military is mostly populated with people who don’t understand this. I think it is because they
like torturing because it gives them a sexual thrill, not because they seriously hope to glean information.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Confessions Under Torture

We know that in the dark ages, people would confess to any nonsense under torture. Why then do modern day
Americans dare to claim torture is a legitimate interrogation tool?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Conflating the Taliban and Al Qaeda

Listening to President Obama speak about his valiant fight in Afghanistan for freedom, God, Democracy and all
that is sacred, you’d think it was the Taliban who had attacked on 9/11, not
Al-Qaeda Saudis. Think back. The official reason for the invasion was America’s impossible-to-comply-with
demand that Afghanistan capture bin Laden for America, hand him over without an extradition treaty, or an
extradition hearing and without presenting any evidence of his guilt. The USA refused Afghanistan’s offer
hold an ad hoc extradition hearing to present evidence. The real reason for the invasion, of course, was of course
was the Taliban refused to give Unocal a free right of way for its oil pipeline. That is why Bush appointed mostly
ex-Unocal people, including Karzai himself, to the puppet government.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Conflating Terrorists and POWs

Over and over, Cheney got away with conflating terrorists and POWs
He even got away with it when he said on 2009-06-01 that Americans captured terrorists on the battlefield who were trying to kill Americans soldiers (who had illegally invaded
Iraq). Those are prisoners of war. A terrorist is someone who kills civilians. Yet no one ever
calls Cheney on his endlessly repeated lie.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Conflicting Beliefs

Most Americans know that the official story of 9/11 is that the Saudi terrorists were
killed in the suicide attacks. Most Americans know that the USA attacked Iraq under false pretenses, unprovoked.
Most Americans know that American attacked Afghanistan unprovoked. Yet nearly all Americans also believe they are
fighting wars of self defence. This is utter nonsense and if any American stopped to question in for 5 seconds, they would realise it is nonsense because neither Afghanistan nor Iraq had anything to do
with 9/11! Even Bush said so. Yet most Americans believe this lie because most other
Americans believe it, like genetically modified sheep. They are so firmly convinced that Americans are the good
guys that have created a transparently delusional story to cover up American wrongdoing. It fools nobody but
Americans. Nobody else believes Americans are incapable of atrocities. Even in the face of evidence that Americans
routinely torture, they cling to the notion that American soldiers are perfect boy scouts.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Conscientious Resistor or Traitor

What would you call a citizen of Germany during WWII
who exposed the atrocities of the holocaust or who sabotaged the German war effort or who passed on intelligence to
the Allies that harmed Hitler’s war effort? Perhaps a conscientious resistor?
Hitler, of course, would have termed them traitors and would have executed them. However,
what does history call them? Whatever it is, it should also apply to people to did similar things to counter the
war efforts of those countries that illegally and aggressively (in a first strike) invaded and plundered both
Afghanistan and Iraq. I would include Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. The passive Americans who agreed to the
atrocity, the torture and the plunder don’t even deserve to call themselves of the same species as those two.
They are indistinguishable from Nazis.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Consequences of Torture

By resorting to routine torture of all detainees in Afghanistan, NATO
convinced the Taliban that death was far preferable to letting NATO
win. NATO
behaved even worse than the Russians and, as a consequence, created even stronger resistance.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Consequences Of War Crimes

A competent bank robber is well aware of both the penalties for getting caught and the size of the take.
Similarly a competent soldier should be aware that aiding and abetting an aggressive war
(first strike, such as Iraq or Afghanistan) is a capital war crime. He should be sure the enjoyment he gets from
the killing, raping, torturing and looting exceeds the potential for prosecution. He should be aware that sometimes
the consequences are delayed. Some Nazis were not prosecuted until they were in their 90s.
War crime prosecution depends on the changing political climate and balance of national powers.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Considering Suicide Attacks

Under what extreme circumstances would you consider participating in suicide attacks? Perhaps if some foreign
power had invaded and occupied your country for 15 years, raped your women and children, rounded up and tortured your young
men, desecrated your places of worship, used hideously cruel, illegal weapons of war on your civilian populations
and/or killed your family. What is your evidence the Taliban are any different from you?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Consistency

I can understand why Canadian mothers are horrified when their sons go off to join
ISIS to rape, bomb, torture, murder
and behead innocent children. But what baffles me is why other Canadian mothers, whose sons did the exact same
thing, under the banner of Canada, are bursting with pride.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Contempt for the Military

Here are a few of the reasons I hold military men in contempt:

They are groveling slaves. When they enlist the abandon responsibility for their actions. They become zombies
who do 100% what they are told.

They invade countries when those countries presented no threat to the homeland.

They murder people, especially children who presented no threat to the homeland.

They rape, torture and kill for personal pleasure, especially children.

They use banned weapons.

They serve a few years, then expect the state to support them for the rest of their lives on pensions. They
are deadbeats.

They abandon their wives and families for long periods of time.

They take no moral responsibility for their crimes.

They are stupid. Often they take a military job because they are too dumb to get a real job.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Continuing the Afghan War

On 2011-05-25 the US House of Representatives voted
215-204 to continue the Afghan war? What on earth for? Those that voted for it did so because they take money
from the defence industry that want perpetual war because it means perpetual profits
even when there is no point to the war.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Contractors

Imagine Hitler had created a class of soldier recruited from prisons — violent criminals who were sent
into war with no instructions, no code of conduct and no laws constraining them. They were free to kill, rape and
torture as the spirit moved them. This probably would have seriously harmed Mr. Hitler’s reputation. Yet
Americans cheered their country on when it did the same thing sending contractors into
Iraq and Afghanistan.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Contrast

When I listen to NATO
leaders toasting each other and joking around, I find it hard to reconcile with the mission that brings them all
together — exterminating Muslims.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Controlling Afghanistan

Hillary Clinton believes America cannot leave Afghanistan until they can control what happens after they leave.
For pity sake. America can’t even control what happens with an occupying force of 100,000.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Convince You To Take Up Arms

If you were a person who wanted nothing to do with war, what could convince you to take up arms? Somebody could
kill your wife and children hideously and painfully using banned weapons; they could imprison and torture you; they
could occupy your country treating you as vermin and stripping it of its resources; they could spit on your
religion. That just might do it. No wonder the Americans are so successful at encouraging terrorist attacks, which should more properly be called vendetta attacks.
You’d think Americans were deliberately inviting attacks to provide obscene profits for the defence industry.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Cornered Fighters

A tiny country, Afghanistan, was able to defeat the Russians and later the Americans partly because Russians and
Americans behaved so brutally that they convinced the Afghans that they had no choice but to defeat the invaders or
be tortured to death.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Corpse Respect

No matter how often I see it, I find it bizarre that the American public are far more upset about how American
soldiers treat Afghan corpses with insufficient respect than they are about them torturing living Afghan children,
dousing Afghan women in napalm, burning babies to death with white phosphorus and poisoning the ecosystem with
DU.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Corruption of War

In the 1700s, war was fought by gentlemanly rules, almost as a sport, sparing
civilians. It had the salutary effect of reducing the population and reducing domestic violence by attracting
violent young men to their Darwinian deaths. Today, we have ruined war for this purpose by directing it primarily
at civilians and by making it too safe for the combatants.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Cosmic Justice

If you whack a beehive and steal the honey, don’t complain of cosmic injustice if you get stung.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Cost of Hegemony

Over the last decade the US military spent well over $2 trillion dollars trying to
ensure control of oil in the middle east. I will leave it up to you to decide just how well they succeeded. How
much further ahead would America be if instead they had invested that $2 trillion in
alternative energy — clean nuclear, solar, wind, geothermal, tidal… then sold the technology to an
energy-hungry world? The way it is now, the US has no clean technology and is just as reliant on
OPEC (the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries)
oil as ever. They will have to spend trillions more to buy the new technology from China, Europe, India and,
surprise, OPEC.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Cost of Wars

America has spent more per capita killing, torturing and generally making life miserable for the people of
Afghanistan and Iraq than even Hitler did attacking any country.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Countries Commit Crimes

Every time a criminal commits a crime, he leaves behind clues. These mistakes add up and make it possible to
prosecute him. Countries too commit crimes. They cover them up with massive propaganda barrages. But with each
crime, they betray more and more clues to their true hearts.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Cover For Sadists

The US military works non-stop to provide a respectable cover for the sadists, rapists and racists who enlist.
It is much like the way the Catholic church provides a holy cover for pedophiles who enlist in the priesthood.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Crazy As Nazis

Imagine that you learned from reputable sources that during WWII
when the allies bombed Berlin that the Berliners were shocked. They phoned and asked the radio stations why they
were being attacked. Who dared attack innocent German civilians for no reason? When they were reminded Germany was
at war and had been fire bombing civilians in Britain, they responded, What’s that got
to do with it? You might conclude they were brain damaged or delusional, but nearly all present day
Americans and Canadians suffer from the same deliberate blindness concerning the motivation of the Boston Marathon
terrorist bombing.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Creating Terrorism

ISIS
is the most successful terrorist group in history in terms of fund raising. Yet it is up there with Boko Haram in
depraved behaviour. Why the popularity? We in the west illegally attacked and occupied the middle east on false
pretences. We committed continuous atrocities that even Hitler refused to use as too barbaric. It is
our vets who are killing themselves with shame at what they did. We should not be surprised that
we prepared the conditions to spawn a terrorist group that believes the west is so evil that
nothing is off the table in seeking revenge. Our behaviour convinced them we are supernaturally
evil. We in the west should start thinking about how to recover our reputation in the world as the best protection
from global terrorism.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Creating Terrorists

Recipe to create a terrorist: take one idealistic young man, lock him into an apartheid system where there is no
future, imprison and torture his father, rape his mother and sister then napalm his little brother with a twist of
white phosphorous. What puzzles me is why there are so many self-styled warriors against terrorism working so hard
to create more terrorists.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Crime of the Millennium

Americans beat the crap out of tiny Afghanistan and Iraq, neither of which had anything at all to do with
9/11. Even Bush claims the culprits were Saudi. This is crime that will be remembered for
millennia. There is no way America can indefinitely escape reprisal. The more Americans torture, rape, plunder and
murder the worse the revenge will eventually be. The fools imagine the crueler they are, the safer they are. They
are using the failed shock and awe strategy that Hitler attempted.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Crimean Crime

Putin illegally invaded the Crimea and forced upon the residents a referendum where they had two choices:

Accept annexation from Russia.

Form an independent federation.

The choice not on the ballot was:

Remain part of the Ukraine.

This is the sort of stunt Hitler pulled of prior to WWII
when he was hassling gays much as Putin does now. Every member of the UN (United Nations)
signed a treaty not to invade other countries and to refuse to put up with other counties doing so. But of course
they do nothing. Why? Might makes right, same as when those same countries looked the other way when the USA
illegally invaded Viet Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Criminal Vilifies Those Who Refuse to Join Him

The way Americans vilified the French when France refused to join the USA in the illegal invasion and plunder of
Iraq reminds me of the way a drug addict turns on then sheds his friends who try to warn him of the dangers of his
lifestyle.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Cronkite the Happy Killer

I saw some old news footage of Walter Cronkite in Viet Nam. He took off in a jet that dropped bombs killing a
few dozen Viet Namese children. Cronkite was exhilarated. All he could think about was the G forces he experienced
in the dive to bomb. It never crossed his mind he just killed more children than the most notorious pedophiles on
the planet. If Cronkite can be this callous, what can we expect of the drops outs that form most of the armed
forces?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Cross Medals

It is no accident that military medals are often made in the shape of a cross. This is part of the propaganda to
convince soldiers that killing people, just because they were ordered to, is a holy undertaking.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Crusaders

If the Muslim nations of the earth sent large armies into the Christian countries, slaughtered entire cities to
the last man, woman and child, including Muslims living there who had been contaminated
by contact with Christians, what would we call these armies? When we did it, we called them crusaders. To this day we use the word crusade for any noble, difficult,
world-changing enterprise. Bush-43 also used it to characterise the invasion of Iraq.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Cuba Missile Crisis

I clearly remember the Cuba missile crisis that started on 1962-10-14. I was only
14 years and 8 months
old at the time. We had a drill a short time earlier of the new nuclear warning sirens to practice going home to
die. I could not see the point. At the height of the crisis, the nuclear warning sirens went off. I turned on the
radio to get news. It was dead. My three sisters and I started to wail We are all going to
die. My Dad shouted angrily at us to shut up that there must be some logical explanation. I made my bed and
went out to sit on a giant granite hill in the front yard. From there I had a spectacular view of the city of
Vancouver and the harbour. I waited for the nuclear flash. It did not come. It turned out moisture had some how
shorted the warning system. Fuck you Kennedy and your bloated ego!

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Cuban History

The Bay of Pigs invasion was on 1961-04-17. The Cuban Missile Crisis started on
1962-10-14. Americans don’t realise the two events were connected and their own
actions had a lot to do with precipitating the crisis. The Russians believed they had to defend Cuba, a soviet bloc
country, from more US invasions. Further, the Americans had installed missiles in Turkey pointed at the
USSR. The Soviets were attempting
parity. P.S. One of the reasons the Bay of Pigs invasion failed was the CIA
used a map drawn in the 1800s. It showed a beach that was actually a mangrove swamp.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 was by far the most terrifying event of my life. The
world escaped nuclear war only because a Soviet submarine captain refused orders to fire his nuclear weapons.
Oddly, as the cold war thawed, the USA stepped up its blockade on Cuba. In 1992
the Torricelli act made it illegal for a ship to dock in the USA for 160 days after
docking in Cuba. In 1996 the Helms-Burton act sanctioned any country that traded with
Cuba. On 2004-06-04 the USA allocated $59 million dollars
for anti-Castro propaganda. To top it off, the US attempted to assassinate Castro over 600 times. Why is this? Today, Cuba presents little military threat to the USA. It can’t be
that Castro is a dictator. The USA has happily supported hundreds of many other dictators throughout the world
including the leaders of Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Chile, Indonesia, the Philippines, Jordan, Zimbabwe, Brazil,
Nicaragua, the Shah of Iran, Batista in pre-revolutionary Cuba, even Saddam Hussein in pre Gulf war Iraq…
The reason is the USA wants to return to the way things were prior to 1959, when the USA
picked the puppet dictators who ran Cuba for the benefit of the USA, treating it the way Britain used to exploit
its colonies.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Custer’s Punishment

Custer’s strategy for taking lands from the Sioux was to kill everyone: men, women and children, no
prisoners. He got off lightly, losing only his life, at Little Big Horn.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Danger of a Powerful Military

People who promote ever higher spending for the military may be motivated by greed or paranoia or a desire to
plunder other countries. They forget the military is traditionally the group most likely to seize power in a coup.
As the president, you have to make sure the power of the military is never allowed to become too unified. That is
the main advantage of a separate army, navy, air force and marines.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Danger of Strong Personalities

Most historians put the blame for WWII
on Hitler’s pathological personality. Perhaps we should avoid ever having a leader and elect
groups to lead instead.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Dangerous Delusions

Dangerous religious people are those who believe they cannot really die. They take murder and being killed far
too lightly. If you allow such people access to nuclear weapons, it will be only a matter of time until they use
them. We have to work to dismantle such crazy beliefs doing as little damage as possible to religious freedom.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Dark Side

Americans are so in denial of their dark side, that they pretend they are desperately fighting to defend America
from enslavement both by Iraq and Afghanistan, even though the USA attacked both tiny countries unprovoked and
illegally because they were not sufficiently compliant in handing over their oil and oil pipeline corridors.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Dark Side of M*A*S*H (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital)

I enjoyed M*A*S*H, especially the original Altman
movie. However, it had a sinister side effect, making light of mindless murder and mayhem. The made it easier to
sell the Afghan and Iraq wars. Yes, it damned war, but with the intensity one might damn those who let their dogs
poo on your lawn.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Day 1 of the Iraq War

On 2003-03-20, the opening day of the Iraq war, I sat with some Iraqi expatriates and
watched the USA bomb the residential sections of Baghdad on live video feed. They screamed and wailed as the
apartment buildings of friends back home were reduced to rubble and friends inside were crushed to death before
their eyes. If you are an American, you too probably remember that day, sitting with your friends, having a beer
and chips and cheering the bomb hits as if they were a video game or a fireworks display. I see you as a decadent
Roman emperor watching a blood spectacle for his entertainment. I find you an outrageous liar when you claim your
soldiers do not kill children, when you personally spent hours watching them do it live.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Dealing With Terrorism

We are having a terrible time with terrorism. Part of the problem is we are focussing on the symptoms rather
than the causes. Unfortunately, the causes are illegal actions we took over a decade ago.

We illegally invaded Afghanistan. International law says you may not invade another country unless they
attack you first. This is the law that hanged all the Nazis at the end of WWII.

We illegally invaded Iraq, again with a first strike. We lied brazenly the reason for violating international
law was to stop Saddam from nuking his neighbours. We pretended the invasion was about regime change. However
Saddam offered to surrender and we turned him down. He was deposed immediately and captured and executed shortly
thereafter. But the war carried on without a hiccup. So the war could not have been about Saddam. Nelson Mandela,
and pretty well anyone not involved in the war, said the war was about stealing Iraq’s oil. Obama declared
the war over the same day there was a giant auction to sell off Iraq’s oil reserves to American and
European oil companies.

By dropping bombs from a great height on residential neighbourhoods, we guaranteed we would kill more women
and children than combatants.

We used banned weapons such as white phosphorus, Napalm, depleted uranium, cluster bombs and land mines to
terrorise the populations.

We tortured detainees.

Deliberately killing civilians like that is terrorism.

If someone had done even a small sampling of these things to you or your children, would you not vow undying
revenge? Terrorism today is a direct consequence of our evil deeds over a decade ago. It is too late to undo our
cruelty and greed. We are far from innocent. We will just have to muddle through.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Death Cult

When people join a death cult, first they are brainwashed, then they can kill repeatedly without thinking
anything of it. The exact same thing happens to soldiers.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Death Of Soldiers Does Not Matter

Consider a Syrian soldier shooting on his own people. Chances are he shares the same politics they do. What is
with this dildobrain? He just does what he is told, no matter how asinine, crazy or evil it is. This soldier has
abdicated his personhood. I don’t consider him human. He is a zombie. His death no longer matters.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Death Threats From Soldiers

Soldiers threaten to kill me because I don’t approve of them killing children or people who are no threat
to their country. Why would they be so sensitive? Why do they care what some obscure old man in Canada thinks of
them? It must be that deep inside they are deeply ashamed and they imagine the approval of a formerly disapproving
parent figure like myself would erase the pain. Perhaps it is just I poke through their self-deception that what
they are doing is right.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Debate With Hitch

This is an imaginary debate between myself and the late Christopher Hitchens:

Chris: Invading Iraq was the best idea George W. Bush ever
had.Roedy: That may well be true since Bush did not have any good
ideas. However, invading Iraq was an illegal, idiotic idea.Chris: So you want just let the Muslim horde take over? You
can’t let dusty international law interfere with survival.Roedy: If that was your intent, Iraq was a strange place to start,
the most secular country in the middle east.Chris: But Saddam was an odious monster. Did you want to just let
him get away with it?Roedy: Yes, he was a monster, but he was America’s monster.
The CIA
helped him into power. George Herbert Walker Bush sold Saddam the poison gas on credit that he used to gas the
Kurds. George H.W. Bush’s friends in the cabinet owned the company that manufactured it. Getting rid of one
man does not require invading an entire country.Chris: But he had doubles. There was no way to pick just him off
with a few bombs.Roedy: You forget that Saddam offered to surrender on the eve of
the invasion. If the goal were simply to get rid of him, would that not have been preferable to destroying the
entire country?Chris: You just made that up. He would never have surrendered. The
war was about freedom for the Iraqis and about his nukes.Roedy: Bush claimed Saddam had the ambiguous term
WMDs
which could have been just a canister of chlorine. Bush used the poetic term mushroom
cloud which indicated he meant nukes. His only evidence was a from an anonymous alcoholic, code named
Curveball, paid $40,000 a month to make up lurid tales that were never verified.
Ambassador Joe Wilson (a Republican) and the Italians and French warned Bush that the documents supposedly proving
Saddam was buying yellowcake from Niger were obvious fakes. France had bought up the entire production for years to
come. Rumsfeld lied that he knew the exact location of Saddam’s nukes. Bush would not touch North Korea with
a ten foot pole because they actually had nukes. The US army marched boldly into Iraq without any precautions. They
clearly were not expecting any nukes.Chris: Everybody knows there were tons of
WMDs
even if no one could find them. Saddam was smart. He just hid them. They were just for deterrence. He would never
dreamed of using them. The war was really about getting rid of Saddam and inaugurating an age of democratic
freedom.Roedy: If the war were truly about deposing Saddam, why did it not
end when he was captured or hanged? There was not even a hiccup. It did not wind down until the day Obama announced
the giant auction of all of Iraq’s oil reserves mainly to European oil companies. Ask anyone in the middle
east. They will tell you that the war was about getting control of Iraq’s oil.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Decapitating a Random Dog

If people were as stupid as armies, when they got mugged, they would decapitate a random dog.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

For the longest time it was illegal it to display a photo of a coffin of a US soldier. Photos of soldiers of
other countries was ok. Photos of non-soldiers was ok. Pictures of US soldier coffins, dead US soldiers, wounded US
soldiers, even disabled US soldiers are extremely rare. If you post one, as I have done, you will get threats from
US soldiers telling you they plan to beat you up or kill you. What’s this taboo all about?

deception

If the public never sees the cost of the war and sees only dead opponents, they are easily
tricked into thinking the war is just about won and should continue to be funded. The soldiers love their
sadistic little game and want the taxpayers to continue funding it.

denial

If coffins are taboo, everyone gets to pretend no one is getting killed. It is a way for
soldiers and their families to deny the danger.

respect

The soldiers claim their anger is about wanting respect for the dead. Get serious. The dead
don’t care. What they really mean is respect for themselves. They are war criminals, sadistic serial
killers and sometimes child rapists and torturers. Secretly they feel sick at heart about this and deny it with
an exaggerated demand for respect. They don’t care if others respect their president, their sports team,
their beer, their car manufacturer… just murdering civilians.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Deciding Who Are the Good Guys

Did you ever wonder how people decide which side of a conflict has the moral correctness? Germans
WWII
believed the Nazis were the good guys. Americans believe America is 100% justified in its
wars even though American attacked nations unprovoked such as Viet Nam, Grenada, Afghanistan and Iraq, tore up the
Geneva conventions, used banned weapons and used torture. They believe Americans are superior beings and any
atrocity is justified to counter any threat, actual or potential. People are very primitive in how they decide.
They do not analysis. They go with the home team, no matter how abominably it has behaved. Israelis think their
invasion of Palestine and the apartheid police state they set up is fully justified. The Palestinians think that
the suicide bombers are a legitimate tool to oust the invaders. Very rarely do you find someone who notices how
badly their side is behaving. This even applied in the civil war where people picked sides mainly by geography.

Looked at objectively, America has behaved far worse that any terrorists. Terrorists
kill in the 100s, sometimes 1000s. American kill and torture in
the millions.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Decision Points

The president of the USA had decisions to make whether to continue the Iraq war or whether to end it.

Decision to attack Iraq, which was first strike war, which is a war crime.

Decision to reject Saddam’s offer of surrender.

Decision to keep occupying Iraq even though Saddam was toppled.

Decision to keep occupying Iraq even though Saddam was executed.

Finally, the decision to pull out the very day Obama held a giant auction to sell off Iraq’s oil
reserves to American and European oil interests. Mission accomplished.

It seems abundantly clear to me the war had nothing to do with Saddam, and everything to do with confiscating
Iraq’s oil, the #2 reserves on the planet.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Defeating Hitler

I find it so odd that Americans like Jerry Falwell say the main benefit of defeating Hitler is that we
don’t speak German. Surely many other things are more important:

maintaining the constitution

not living in a dictatorship

not killing off the remaining Jews, gays and Gypsies

not burning the world’s literature

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Defeating ISIS

To defeat ISIS, mindlessly repeating what we
have done unsuccessfully before will not work. We first need to understand the source of
ISIS
’s strength. These sources include:

The USA invading Iraq on the pretense of just toppling Saddam (which the Iraqis supported) then continuing to
occupy for over a decade. The Iraqis felt betrayed.

Swearing the invasion was about WMDs, then
finding none and continuing the occupation.

Swearing the invasion had nothing to do with oil, then selling off most of Iraq’s oil resources to
North American and European oil companies.

Blaming 9-11 on Islam. George W. Bush referring to the invasion as a crusade. Many
irresponsible American politicians have publicly declared war on all Islam rather than a fringe sect of
fundamentalist terrorists. That is as stupid as blaming all Christians for the behaviour of the Branch Davidians.
All Muslims are bound by threat of eternal torture to defend the faith.

Mindless bombing and use of banned weapons on civilians.

Torture, including perverse techniques like rape dogs, which convince middle easterners they are dealing with
a foe more degenerate and needful of elimination than the Nazis.

It is a bit late now to rescue America’s reputation. I can only think of two things they can do:

Covertly promote the moderate Muslim groups all over the world who are also threatened by
ISIS. They need tools to win the
propaganda war that ISIS
does not speak for Allah. The USA has no direct credibility in that debate.

ISIS
gets its money by selling oil. Even countries that don’t officially approve of
ISIS
are funding them by buying their oil. The long term solution is to reduce dependence on terrorist oil and replace
it with green energy.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Defeating Terrorists

I am impressed by the way the anti-terrorist people in the USA are almost always able to infiltrate terrorist
groups and deflect attacks. The big failure was the original attack on the World Trade Center, where they
infiltrated the group, but failed to replace the explosives with fakes. This suggests for any terrorist attack to
succeed it must be done by a single person who tells no one what he is up to. It also makes me wonder if would-be
terrorists would even make an attempt without infiltrators egging them on.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Defence No Motive

In WWI
and WWII, Canadian, American and British men enlisted
motivated to protect their countries which were under attack. That motive does not apply to the Afghan war because
we attacked them first and they have no means to invade us. (Even George W. Bush said that the Taliban had no
rôle whatsoever in 9/11.) So what possible motives could motivate men to enlist for
the Afghan (or Iraq) wars?

They like killing and/or torturing people.

They like rape. They can rape men, women, children or animals without legal repercussions or public shame in
Afghanistan.

They are such losers, even Walmart or McDonald’s won’t hire them. The military is the employer of
last resort.

They have an conscious or unconscious suicide wish.

They are motivated like Crusaders of old, by bigotry to exterminate anyone of the Islamic faith or a dark
skin.

The master/slave dominance/submission culture of the military turns them on something fierce.

They are clinically paranoid and fear Afghan goat herders hiding in their closets.

Can you think of any others? With motivation like that, it is obscene that so many treat Afghan vets as equally
heroic as those who served in WWI
or WWII.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Defending America

Reverend Al Sharpton called the SEALs (Navy Sea Air Lands)
killed when the Taliban shot down A Chinook helicopter American heroes defending
America. That is simply not true. America attacked Afghanistan, not the reverse. Afghanistan has no means to
attack America. They fight with IED (Improvised Explosive Device)
s, not battleships and bombers. Afghanistan had no part in 9/11. That attack was illegal
by both the Nuremberg principles and by a UN
treaty. Anyone aiding or abetting the war is a war criminal guilty of a capital crime, hardly a hero.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Defending Freedom

Soldiers may fool their mothers that they are heading off to butcher children in Afghanistan and Iraq to
defend freedom whatever that means. But we all know why they are really doing it. They
like bullying, torturing, raping and/or killing. If they indulge these desires at home they could end in prison. If
they indulge them in Afghanistan or Iraq, they could get a medal.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Defending Freedom, My Ass!

Americans sling such bullshit! They claim they are pummeling Afghanistan and Iraq to defend American freedom.
Yet in the 15 years and 2 months
of Afghan war and the 13 years and 8 months
of the Iraq war, neither country has launched even a single attack against the USA. And further, they made no
attacks prior to the Americans illegally invading their countries. We all know the real reason for the war, but
American pretend not to know. Obama auctioned off all of Iraq’s oil assets to American and European oil
companies on the very day he announced the wind-down of the war.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Defending Freedom? What BS!

Every documentary about the US soldiers in Afghanistan or Iraq invariably makes a preposterous claim that the
soldiers are sacrificing the lives to protect the citizens of the USA and their freedom. Neither Afghanistan nor
Iraq has ever attacked the USA. Further, they have no means to do so. However, the USA has attacked them and
pounded them mercilessly. The motivations of the soldiers have nothing whatsoever to do with defending freedom.
That’s just the public excuse. They are about such things as:

Enjoying killing people.

Racist hatred of the people of the region.

Sexual perversion. In a war zone soldiers can use force to get what they want without consequences.

Enjoying the military life of dominance and submission.

As a job you can land without effort.

To bow to family pressure.

As a way of escaping one’s wife and children.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Defending ≠ Attacking

Americans make no distinction between the honour of soldiers who fought to defend the USA in
WWII
and those who attacked other nations unprovoked in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars to gain control of oil
supplies.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Defensive and Aggressive War

Recruiting posters always talk of defending the homeland even when your country clearly attacked first and the
other country is a small fraction the size of yours.

There are two kinds of wars:

A war where your country is attacked.

A war where your country attacked someone else.

Usually in the first type there is a draft and in the second there is not, though there was a draft for the Viet
Nam war. There is a pressing need for young men to defend their country in the first sort of war. In the second,
there is not. The first sort of war is legal; the second is not.

Why then do people enlist for the second type of war? They are obviously well aware they will be asked to bully,
torture and kill children, women and men, so they could not have that big an objection to doing it.

They like killing. They are natural serial killers who seek a socially acceptable outlet.

They are sadists. They seek socially acceptable outlet for their cruelty.

They want to get away from their wives and families. They prefer male camaraderie.

They enjoy the adrenalin thrill of combat.

They love playing with high tech war toys.

They are rapists or child molesters seeking unlimited outlets where they will not face legal
repercussions.

They have committed some crime and are looking for a way to quickly disappear until the heat is over.

There is a family tradition of enlisting in the military. The enlistee has no mind of his own and does
whatever his parents demand no matter how morally repugnant.

The enlistee is a high school dropout with no marketable skills. It is a choice between becoming a drug
dealer, going on welfare or enlisting and killing innocent people. He chose to become the lowest-pay grade hit
man.

They have master/slave fantasies. The idea of big bellowing sadistic sergeant with his foot up their butt
turns them on something fierce.

They are seeking a socially acceptable means of suicide.

These are just some of the good reasons to stay well away from such psychotic people as friends, lovers or
spouses.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Definition of a Soldier

A soldier is a professional who hunts and kills humans of all ages and sexes. He is employed by a government. He
is motivated primarily by sadism. A hit man is a professional killer who executes primarily criminals and business
owners who refuse to pay protection. He is employed by organised crime. He is motivated primarily by money. The
soldier is the more odious because of his choice of victim.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Definitions of Terrorism

Historian Caleb Carr defines terrorism as killing civilians with the intent of
changing their political affiliation.

Steven Pinker defines terrorism as premeditated violence perpetrated by a non-state
actor, against non-combatants (civilians or off-duty soldiers) in pursuit of a political, religious, or social
goal, designed to coerce a government or to intimidate or convey a message to a larger audience.

The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
defines terrorism as the unlawful use of force against persons or property to intimidate
or coerce a government, the civilian population or any segment thereof, in the furtherance of political or social
objectives. This definition includes three elements:

Terrorist activities are illegal and involve the use of force.

The actions are intended to intimidate or coerce.

The actions are committed in support of political or social objectives.

US law defines international terrorism as:

involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United
States or of any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United
States or of any State;

appear to be intended:

to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;

to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or

to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and

occur primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, or transcend national boundaries
in terms of the means by which they are accomplished, the persons they appear intended to intimidate or coerce,
or the locale in which their perpetrators operate or seek asylum;

By all but Pinker’s definition, when US soldiers kill civilians, the soldiers too are terrorists. By all
definitions when Afghans or Iraqis kill occupying US soldiers those are not acts of terrorism. The media use a
definition like this. If we do it then it is not terrorism. If the people we are killing do it, then it is.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Delayed Bombs

What kind of sick puke would design a bomb/land mine/cluster bomb that would detonate 50 years after the war was over to kill children?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Delayed Realisation

It took 180 years for ordinary Americans to become aware of how badly their government
had treated the Cherokee Indians of Georgia. How many more years will they hide from the truth about what their
government did to the Afghan and Iraqi people?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Delayed Realisation

It was not until WWII
was over did it dawn on the average German that they were the bad guys. In a similar way, it may take 40 years after the Afghan and Iraq wars end before Americans clue in they were the villains and the
wars they fought were illegal and fought for shameful motives.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Delayed Revenge

Arabs have a culture of keeping grudges over generations. They are honour bound to seek revenge. Americans will
forget what they did to the Iraqis when they leave, but the Iraqis will not. The revenge may not come until
70 years from now.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Deliberately Blind Americans

I feel such fury and revulsion at Americans every time I watch the news. They are deliberately blind to the fact
their wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are illegal and hence all who participate are war criminals guilty of a capital
crime. They blind themselves to the fact the people in Iraq and Afghanistan hate them with a passion because the
Americans have occupied for so long after promising to liberate, imposed corrupt dictators, tortured, used banned
weapons and killed their wives and children. Americans are so conceited they pretend to themselves they are loved
as benefactors bringing the gift of democracy. It is not democracy if you shove it down somebody’s
throat.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Delusions

On 2011-09-07, I heard a young lady on KUOWNPR (National Public Radio)
who said she was much wiser now and had new respect for US soldiers seeking revenge for 9/11.

She had it right the first time. Even President Bush claimed the 9/11 attackers were
Saudi (including bin Laden). The Afghans and Iraqis had nothing to do with it. There is nothing honourable about
torturing the dog because the cat peed on the sofa. Further, even if they had done it, is not
15 years, 2 months and 28 days
sufficient revenge for an attack that took only a few hours? This is obsessive. The USA has gone mad, abandoning
the Geneva conventions, using banned weapons, torturing, targeting children (blindly bombing residences which are
usually occupied by mostly children)… They have become more depraved than the 9/11
terrorists.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Dense Americans

How dense can Americans be. They watch those whose countries they occupy committing suicide just to help throw
the invaders out and still Americans imagine their yoke beneficial, light and pleasant. They explain that when
Hitler invaded unprovoked and plundered nations for natural resources, it was very bad, but claim when Americans do
exactly the same thing, it must, by definition, be saintly. American shit does not stink.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Dense Americans

I can’t get over how dense Americans are. They attacked and occupied two countries, torturing and in every
possible way shredding the Geneva conventions. Yet they are utterly astonished that anyone would seek revenge for
this. In a war, both sides try to hurt each other. What is so difficult to understand?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Deserving Pain

In a war, soldiers often experience unbearable pain from injuries or torture. Most of the time they fully
deserved this. They enlisted because they wanted to inflict just such unbearable pain on others.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Despise Soldiers

The military spends millions selling a sanitised view of war where soldiers are noble warriors bravely defending
their country. Soldiers have not had to defend the USA, Canada, Britain, France… against attack since
WWII. If people could actually see what soldiers do, if they could hear the soldiers talk
to each other as they kill, they would hate them and despise them with just as much vehemence as they hate other
serial killers and sadistic child-raping pukes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Destroying Democracy

Hitler justified destroying democracy, rule of law and constitutional protections by fanning paranoia about
Jewish secret organisations. The US military does the same thing with Al-Qaeda.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Deteriorating Nukes

The US nuclear arsenal was built presuming it would be upgraded in 10 to 20 years later. However, here we are 50 years later and fungus is literally
growing on the old equipment. The US and Russia still have nuclear missiles trained on each other, for no good
reason.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Deterring Terrorists

The cheapest way to deter terrorist attacks is to stop committing atrocities. Americans have this notion that
they are innocent victims of irrational religious violence. They refuse to acknowledge that they
commit most of the theft, torture and killing in the world. Whatever happens to the USA is token
retribution.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Detesting Soldiers

I feel more kindly toward fire ant queens than I do soldiers, male or female, who breed.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Dexter

In the TV series Dexter, the lead character captures serial killers and straps them to a table so
they cannot move. He then gets them to understand the depth of their crimes and then kills them. Dexter never went
after a military serial killer, but it would have been satisfying to watch him crush their lame denials of wrong
doing and evil intent.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Dichotomous Thinking

If you ever suggest to a Republican it might be better two reduce military spending they will inevitably say
We can’t just lower our defences and let everyone walk all over us. This is what
psychiatrists call dichotomous either-or thinking. Reducing is not the same as eliminating. Republicans cannot grab
the notion that in any spending, including military spending, there is such a thing as too little and also too
much.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Dick Cheney on Trial

Dick Cheney has a weak heart so he will likely die peacefully in bed. This is too bad. He has publicly confessed
to a number of capital war crimes, but, as a psychopath, he feels no remorse or guilt. He deserves a trial where he
will no longer be able to deny his malice. Such a trial would also be important for ordinary Americans who are
deluded that, as Americans, they are immune from international law.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Difference between Afghanistan and WWII

What is difference between the Afghan war and WW II? Why so much more PTSD
this time? Why is it so much more crippling?

In WWII
soldiers were defending Canada. In Afghanistan they were not. You can mentally excuse atrocity with defence, but
not offence. That creates crippling guilt.

In WWII, soldiers were primarily fighting other soldiers.
In Afghanistan, women, children and the aged were almost as frequent casualties. That creates crippling
guilt.

In WWII, for the most part, soldiers were fighting by the
rules of the Geneva conventions. In Afghanistan, Bush laughed at them as quaint,
using banned weapons and torture. That creates crippling guilt.

In WWII
men were rapidly rotated out of combat. In Afghanistan, tours of duty and combat were extended.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Difference between a Serial Killer and a Soldier

What’s the difference between serial killers who enlist to kill children in Iraq and those that kill them
back home in the USA? The ones that do it is Iraq get paid to. The ones that do it back home risk arrest by the
American justice system. The ones that do it in Iraq risk arrest by the International justice system. Americans
hold parades to honour the perverts who kill in Iraq and spit on the graves of those who kill them in America. Why
such a difference? Racism. Iraqi children don’t count as human to the American heart.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Difference between a Serial Killer and a Soldier

What’the difference between a serial killer and a US soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan? We hold a parade for
the soldier to celebrate his kills. The serial killer gets a lethal injection.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Difference between a Serial Killer and a Soldier

What’the difference between a US soldier and a serial killer and in Afghanistan or Iraq? The soldier gets
paid.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Difference between The USA And Israel

Both the USA
and Israel
are bullies. Both believe that might makes right. Both are arrogant. Both thumb their noses at international law.
Both are unbelievably conceited claiming to be God’s chosen people/master race. The difference is the
Israelis are brazen about their perfect selfishness where the Americans pretend their actions are motivated by pure
beneficence.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Disadvantages of Soldiering

Soldiering has many extreme negative consequences including:

PTSD.

Brain damage.

Being shot.

Exposure to chemicals that harm the lungs causing lung cancer or emphysema.

Loss of hands, arms, feet, legs, genitals, nose, ears…

Exposure to radiation.

Accidental exposure to banned weapons such as napalm, white phosphorus, cluster bombs which are designed to
be maximally painful.

Being blown up by an IED.

Being killed.

Being turned into a vegetable who can’t feed himself or wipe his bum.

Why would any sane person put that much at risk? I can think of only two circumstances:

Your country is in danger of invasion (which for Americans last happened in WWII
).

You are a first class sadist and you will do anything for a chance to commit mayhem.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Disagreement

Most Americans and I have a strong disagreement. I think they should not kill people who are no threat to them
(the Afghans and Iraqis) and they think they should. But the odd thing is these hawkish Americans often threaten to
beat me up or kill me. Why are they afraid of me?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Disarmament Strategy

Consider some weapon system, e.g. poison gas, nukes, bioweapons… There are both advantages and
disadvantages to stocking that weapon.

The other guy has them. You need more that him for parity.

deterrent.

You can use them to threaten others.

Cost of research and development.

Cost of deployment.

Risk of an accident.

Risk of terrorists stealing the weapon.

Risk of triggering an arms race.

Risk of intemperate use.

If you unilaterally disarm, without concern for what the other guy does, without concern for verification, you
have pulled out one major psychological advantage for your adversary to arming. If he in turn also reduces his
stockpiles, he still gets all the advantages and reduces the disadvantages. There is no negotiation or verification
required. This means when a bolt of sanity strikes any party in the conflict, they can make major progress right
away.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Disband the Snowbirds

The Snowbirds are a Canadian military aeronautic acrobatic team. I would like to see them disbanded for a number
of reasons:

Their shows are intended to turn on young boys and make them yearn to pilot such machines and drop bombs on
innocent people.

They terrify little old ladies. One came rushing toward me convinced we were under attack.

They take risk by doing acrobatics over cities. They have no right to put those people’s lives at
risk.

They waste huge amounts of fuel and emit huge amounts of greenhouse gases.

They make a huge racket that brings work to a standstill in the city they attack.

They are a huge expense to the taxpayer without practical function. They are a frill. The government has no
business putting on circus acts at taxpayer expense.

At the very least, the shows should be held in rural areas far away from any city.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Disgusting Americans, Canadian and British Child killers

Disgust is far too gentle a word I feel for the citizens of the USA, Canada and Britain who have been illegally
bombing and occupying Afghanistan for 15 years, 2 months and 2 days. When the citizens debate whether to continue tormenting the Afghans who did nothing to
harm the NATO
countries and further have no means to, the only issue citizens consider is Can we win?
They almost never ask themselves deeper questions like:

Why are we doing this?

What do we hope to accomplish?

How would things be different if we won or if we just came home?

What are the benefits to us of this extended slaughter?

What business have we in meddling in the internal affairs of a tiny impoverished country on the other side of
the planet?

What could possibly justify the cruelty we inflicted on the Afghan child burned in a
NATO
bombing in the photo to the right?

Why are we willing to bankrupt our country in a pointless, endless war?

Since almost no one asks these questions and no politician ever answers them, I must presume the answers are
shameful. What is it that motivates us?

We treat the war like an Olympic speed-skating event. We just can’t stand the shame of being held to a
stalemate by a country much smaller and poorer than us, especially since we have the help of the largest and most
advanced military on the planet. We we are butchering kids in the name of stubborn national pride.

We want a share of the spoils — Afghanistan’s lithium and Iraq’s oil.

We Canadians and Britons are cowards. We do it only because the Americans tell us to.

In North America, we manufacture almost nothing but weapons, so the war is just a cynical make-work program
to pay off arms makers who bribe politicians and to create make-work jobs that don’t actually need
doing.

We are bigots and sadists who love the idea of torturing Muslim children.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Dishonourable Iraq War

Many Americans are now aware of how dishonourable the Iraq war is. It was an illegal, unprovoked first strike.
The evidence to justify it was either counterfeit or made up out of whole cloth. It was actually an oil heist, now
complete. On the very day Obama announced the Iraq troop withdrawals there was a giant auction of all of
Iraq’s oil reserves to American and European oil companies.

However, very few Americans are aware that between the Gulf War and Iraq wars, in the Sanction Bombings, the USA
bombed Iraq every day, destroying nearly all of Iraq’s sewage plants, electric plants, water treatment
plants, schools, hospitals… all in flagrant violation of the Geneva conventions. America claimed self
defence as justification even though no American planes were ever hit and no soldiers were ever killed or injured.
Between one and two million Iraqis died as a result, many as a result of water borne illness such as cholera. You
could argue this was a form of bio-warfare.

Even fewer Americans are aware of the Glaspie incident in 1990. Kuwait and Iraq were
having a dispute. They were each slant-drilling into the other’s territory and siphoning off the oil. Iraq
asked America’s ambassador Glaspie would it would do if Iraq attacked Kuwait. Glaspie said it would be
considered an internal Arab matter and America would not intervene. As we know, she lied. As soon as Iraq attacked
Kuwait, the USA rushed to its aid and has been pounding the shit out of Iraq ever since. It appears then that
Bush-41 tricked Iraq to give it an excuse to attack Iraq and gain control of its oil. If I were an American, I
would be ashamed of my country for such treachery. If Bush-41 had been honest and said it would rush to
Kuwait’s aid, the Gulf war would have been completely avoided.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Distrust Politicians

Long after a war is over, we find out the government tricked the people into it with lies, all the while
pretending they were reluctantly being forced into it. We are like Charlie Brown and the football. You’d
think by now we would distrust governments by default.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Divine Intervention on 9/11

It will take some Muslim writing a book about 9/11 where he ascribes the thousands of
improbabilities that favoured the terrorists in Bush’s story to Allah’s divine intervention. People
will then read the book to discredit it and discover that Bush’s story was indeed full of holes. They will
likely come to the conclusion that the real explanation for the anomalies has nothing to do with Allah and a lot to
do with Bush being a compulsive liar.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Divine Right of Obama

Astounding as it sounds, according to Salon.com and the New York Times, Obama issued an
executive order allowing him to authorise the assassination of any American citizen, without trial, without
evidence, far from any battle field. This is a throwback to the divine right of kings.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Do Vets Deserve Medical Care?

Given that all the vets of the Viet Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq wars committed a capital war crime, namely aiding
and abetting a aggressive (first strike, unprovoked) war, you could make an argument they
don’t deserve free medical care. On the other hand, nearly every American citizen egged these moral and
mental defectives on to commit that crime and promised they would support the troops.
Now they want to renege on that promise.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Documentary Idea

Both humans and chimps make war on other groups. It would be instructive if somebody made a movie, cutting back
and forth between scenes of human and chimp warfare, but playing the chip sound track to accompany the human
warfare and vice versa to show how primitive, brutal and idiotic the whole business is.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The DOD (Department Of Defence) is really the Department of Offense

If the DOD
were truly about defence, you would expect to see the bulk of American weapons arrayed in a ring around the
continental USA, but they aren’t. They are deployed over the entire globe. Why? Because they are for offence
(including intimidation), not defence.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Don’t Marry A Soldier

If you know someone dating or planning to marry a military man, you might be able to save them extreme misery by
sending them to read my essay
on why you should not marry a soldier.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Doomsday Clock

The Doomsday clock is closer to midnight even than it was in the bellicose days of Ronald Reagan.

Both Democrats and Republicans want to increase defence spending, particularly on
nukes. Obama has already authorised a trillion dollar increase in nuke spending. The defence industry is powerful, completely without morality, driven totally by profit. No
politician dares cross them. This is crazy. The USA already spends more on the military than all the other
countries of the world combined.

I live in Victoria, a small Canadian city. It is unlikely my city will be directly targeted. That means my death
will be slower from a combination of radiation poisoning, particulates in the air and social collapse. I would
rather be instantly vapourised like the citizens of Washington DC.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Double Standard

American soldiers complain that the Iraqi and Afghan resistance fight with IED. They consider this cheating since the attacker can attack from far away. These same
soldiers fail to notice Americans also fight from a distance with high altitude bombers, snipers who can pick
people off from 4.83 km(3 miles) away, cluster bombs, land mines, predator drones…

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Double Standard

Note how North Americans have a double standard about showing the atrocities of war:

Double Standard

Double Standard

Event

If Victim is American

If Victim is Muslim

torture

corpse

killing from a distance

injured child

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Downside of Inventing New Weapons

Every new weapon you invent will eventually be used against you. Don’t expect your enemies to honour your
patents.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Downsides Of Drones

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Drones are just a high tech version of leaving a time bomb to go off in a public place. They kill civilians
indiscriminately.

To the killer, he is just playing a video game. There is no remorse.

There is no risk in killing others. There is nothing to limit use of the weapons.

Drones are conjuring up a impotent fury that will last for centuries in many parts of the world. Eventually
their descendants will find a way to wreck horrible pent-up revenge.

They are cowardly. The soldiers are fat pimply-faced boys who live with their
mothers, who got their start torturing kittens.

Draft Cools Wars

The reason the Afghan and Iraq wars have dragged on so long is because there is no draft. The reason there is no
draft is because the wars are fought roughly 50% with contractors, most of whom are not
American. In other words, Americans are happy to butcher third worlders for oil so long as too many of their own
don’t die in the process.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Drinking the Poison

America has embraced the Republican philosophy of selfishness, greed, contempt for the environment and immediate
gratification. It has voluntarily drunk the poison and now must die with the consequences.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Drone Pilot Slang

Funsized terrorists

US drone pilot slang for child victims.

tits

terrorists in training. US drone pilot slang for child victims.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Drones

90% of drone strikes do not kill the intended target, even when the military considers
all military age males in the strike zone as automatic targets.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Drones

I think the future of American and Canadian aggressive warfare will go to the drone.

The pilot is completely safe, sitting in a bunker on the other side of the world.

The plane is cheaper to build.

The plane can accelerate faster than a human can withstand.

Fat couch potatoes can pilot them.

Being smaller, the plane can be quieter and harder to detect. They can be made in a wide variety of
sizes.

They can more precisely pinpoint the precise victim or family. They can be thought of as assassination
weapons.

They terrorise the population, much the way Nazi buzz bombs terrorised London in WWII.

I think the future of warfare against America and Canada will use terrorism.

There is no simple target to retaliate against.

It can strike anywhere at any time.

It costs almost nothing for the attacker and is cripplingly expensive to defend against.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Drones

The US military assures us drone strikes are precise. By that they mean 10% of the
casualties are not the intended target. Their thinking is, any in the vicinity of a bad guy deserves to die,
including infants.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Drones Mean Killing Kids

According to Code Pink 10% of the casualties in WWII
were civilians. In Iraq it is 90%. With Predator drones it is 99%. Further, in Iraq, about 50% of civilians are under 15. So when you kill blindly with Predators American controlling them half a world away in Las Vegas
are killing mostly children.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Drooling Idiot Americans

Americans bleat piteously that the Taliban treated them with less that welcoming arms. I wonder how the
Americans would treat the Taliban if they invaded and occupied America, killed millions of people, used banned
weapons, tortured, raped, dismissed the president, congress and senate and appointed an interim dictator they
deemed appropriate.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Dumb Soldiers

Soldiers are some of the densest people you will ever encounter. It is as if they all had frontal lobotomies.
They insist they never kill anyone, just protect themselves in self defence. They even deny they are hired killers.
(It would be preposterous for a country to send its soldiers just to get shot at. They could keep them at home much
more cheaply with the same effect.) They kill children, but excuse themselves on the grounds they did not really
mean to kill the kids. They napalm a house full of kids, but excuse themselves on the grounds they did not really
wish the kids harm. What bullshit rationalisation! With that kind of logic they could assassinate the president
claiming they were just trying the kill the rose bugs. They talk only to each other, and manage to convince each
other that atrocities that would make a Nazi blush are perfectly OK, including actions that are patently illegal
(aggressive war, Geneva convention violations, banned weapons, torture…) They hook
up with psychotic women who get off on their crimes and egg them on, much like the women attracted to serial
killers on death row. There is no lower form of life than a soldier. No only has he sold his soul, he has sold his
conscience.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Dumber than Dinosaurs

Americans are nowhere near as intelligent as dinosaurs. How so? Americans spend trillions fretting about
100 unarmed Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan who have vowed revenge for Americans killing millions
of civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet Americans refuse to do anything about global warming which will utterly
obliterate the USA by the end of this century. Dinosaurs ruled 159 million years and were
wiped out by an asteroid, something they could no nothing about. Americans will rule at most 550 years and will die by their own premeditated suicidal acts to deliberately bring on global
warming.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Eager to Kill

On 2011-02-04 I saw a documentary by the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Fifth Estate on Wikileaks. One of the videos they showed was the audio and video of American soldiers eagerly
killing Iraqi civilians from a helicopter as if they were shooting ducks. It was utterly nauseating perhaps the
most revolting thing I have ever seen. The men exhibited the jumpy excitement of dogs eager to mount a bitch. Every
American soldier should commit suicide in shame to be associated with an organisation that orchestrates such
behaviour. Soldiers brag to each other about how many people they have killed that day. They are as sick as any
serial killers.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Effect of Targeting Civilians

Osama bin Laden worried that targeting civilians would drive support away from Al Qaeda. This would apply to any
terrorist organisation or country.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Elimination of Smallpox

One of the great triumphs of medicine was the elimination of smallpox from planet earth. But military people
keep stockpiles of it to use as a weapon. Don’t they have enough ways to kill people already? Why risk one
that if it accidentally or maliciously got out could turn back the clock to the middle ages? A weapon should be
something you can control. Smallpox is not.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Encouraging Nuclear Proliferation

George W. Bush, in his axis of evil speech on 2002-01-29transcript, announced America’s plans to
annihilate Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Reputedly, all three then sought to acquire nuclear weapons to defend
themselves. Only North Korea succeeded. The USA indeed backed from down attacking North Korea after it demonstrated
its ICBMs. What is the world to
learn from this? If the USA threatens you, (perhaps only because you have oil or other valuable natural resources)
your only hope is to acquire nukes. This is hardly a good American strategy for nuclear non-proliferation.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

End of Democracy

The usual way a democracy ends is when the military gets too powerful and takes over. They have the weapons.
They have the people brainwashed into doing what they are told no matter how obviously wrong it is.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

End of the Jock Soldier

The days of the square-jawed, muscular soldier cretin are numbered. War is becoming is being fought more and
more with remote-controlled technology.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

End Of War Conditions

What would it take for the Americans to consider that they had won sufficiently in Afghanistan?

Less than 100 Al Qaeda left? No. That happened long ago.

Less than 100 Taliban left? Not likely. The majority of Afghans support the Taliban
in their effort to eject the American occupation. That would require a massive blood bath.

Have 75% of Afghans support Hamid Karzai. Not bloody likely. He is the most corrupt
dictator on the planet. Not even the Americans like him. He will never enjoy popular support.

The Americans have rigged things so they cannot win. They have set things up so that have to fight endlessly for
the profit of GE, Halliburton, Xe (née Blackwater) etc. Corporations are happy to have the war proceed
forever. It saves the profit disruption required to start new wars should the public get too tired of the Afghan
and Iraq wars.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Endemic Cruelty

Most educated people know the ancient Romans tortured and killed people for their amusement. They know of the
cruelties of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, the Spanish Inquisition and Vlad the Impaler. They know how the
Germans and Japanese treated prisoners in WWII. They know how ordinary
Germans persecuted Jews in WWII. They know about Das Experiment, The Standford
Prison Experiment conducted in 1971 that discovered ordinary American college students
would turn sadistic if given power over another group of students. They know Rwandans slaughtered each other for no
reason other than the victim belonged to the other tribe. Americans know their president authorised torture, secret
torture dungeons, the use of various banned weapons such as DU, white phosphorus, napalm,
cluster bombs and land mines. Americans know their military stockpiles a wide assortment of plagues to use as
biological weapons including genetically enhanced ones to make them more horrible. Given the widespread flowering
of cruelty in the human race, it should be clear it an essential feature of humanity. No group is immune, in
particular soldiers. Yet Americans have a sort of religious reference for soldiers and refuse to even admit the
possibility they could behave in a sadistic way, no matter how much evidence piles up.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Ending a Fight

You can use weapons of war to punish an attacker and thus convince them to call off an attack. However, you
can’t use them to break up a fight. To do that, you need to starve both parties of the resources to
fight.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Ending Wars

Americans talk at is if would take at least two or three years to wind down either the Afghan or Iraq war. Huh?
The much larger WWI
and WWII
hostilities ended overnight.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Endless War

When I was a little boy, adults told me about the Korean war. I got the idea Korea was a place where they held
an endless war where anyone could go who wanted to play soldier. Come to think of it, that is a fairly good
description of Afghanistan.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Enemies vs Victims

Americans use the term enemies in an unusual way. They refer to Afghanistan, Iraq and
Iran as enemies, even though these nations have not attacked the USA. The USA attacked
them unprovoked to steal oil and other natural resources. That is a bit like a mugger calling his mark an
enemy. Most people would call them victims, not enemies.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Entitlement Delusions

Jews think they have the right to steal the Palestinian’s homeland because of what Hitler did to them.
Americans think they have right to invade any country they please and take their oil and minerals because of what
happened to them on 9-11. It is rare to find an Israeli or American who is not fully
possessed by this entitlement delusion.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Escalation

Many species of animals, including humans will kill each other in territorial disputes. The catch is humans keep
developing ever more destructive weapons. If we don’t either on top of our urge to escalate the lethality of
weapons or our ant-like territoriality, we are doomed.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Escalation of Abuse

Atrocity is incremental. It starts with verbal abuse, bullying, slapping and gradually works its way up. Like
most problems, it is easier to stop in its early stages.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Escaping Blame

When an arsonist burns down a nursing home, did he intend to kill the elderly
inside? He would claim no. To him, killing them was just a side effect of producing a pretty blaze. I would say yes
because he was well aware they would not be able to escape. In a similar way, American generals claim they
don’t intentionally kill civilians. Yet I have seen with my own eyes US forces
dropping bombs on apartment buildings and mosques. The generals claim they were trying to kill armed resistors, yet
clearly they killed more children, women and elderly since they outnumber the targets in the general population.
The generals play these word games to make it sound as if they only rarely kill civilians. Hitler could have
excused himself the same way for his rocket attacks on London.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Essential Soldier

The essential character of the soldier comes clear when discipline breaks down, such as in the Congo where
soldiers rape women and then poke sticks and guns in their vaginas to destroy the wall between the vagina, uterus
and rectum leaving them in pain and incontinent for life.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Eternal Shame

In the time of Lyndon Johnson, Americans protested en masse against the pointless Viet Nam war. In the time of
George W. Bush, Americans grumbled, but quietly acquiesced as Bush started two illegal aggressive wars, mocked the world court, laughed at the Geneva conventions, abrogated the
constitution and routinely tortured P.O.W.s. Electing Obama no more wipes that shame from America than the death of
Hitler wipes the stain from Nazi Germany. Further, though Obama is gradually shutting down one unwinnable war, he
is escalating the other.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Evaluating America

When I was a kid I wanted to be American because Superman and the Lone Ranger were. I slept with my feet
pointing south. Three of my partners have been Americans. However, since 9/11 I have come
to hold a very dim view of the USA. They started two prolonged wars on the flimsiest of pretexts, but what burned
me up is there was almost no protest. Americans affect the trappings of patriotism but refuse to defend the
constitution with even token protest. They refuse to get off the pot with greenhouse gas emissions, with the excuse
I dont wanna. It might cost me some money.”. A people who refuse to make even the
tiniest sacrifice for future generations have lost their way morally. They deserve extinction.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Evolution of Warfare

Deer hunters attach their licence to kill to the carcass with a tag that can be tightened, but not loosened or
removed without breaking it. The evolution of warfare works in a similar way. Every step of evolution makes war
cheaper, more lethal, more convenient, more terrifying, more brutal… However, it is only a matter of time
until the everyone has the new technology. You can evolve further but never go back. You can’t put the genie
back in the bottle. So war inexorably gets more efficient and terrible over time. All we can control is how quickly
this happens. People imagine war research makes them safer, but, in actuality, it just brings closer the day when
war is so efficient it drives the entire human species extinct. This eventually happens to every technological
civilisation. Scientists say this is probably why we have had so much trouble finding any other intelligent life in
the universe.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Exaggerating the Threat of Iraq

The USA and Iraq are as mismatched combatants as Mike Tyson and a bag lady. Americans make themselves look
ridiculous when they justify invading and occupying Iraq in self defence.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Excessive Mourning

If someone mourns for over a decade for a loved one, builds multiple monuments and memorials and makes
semi-annual pilgrimages to the death site, we might say to them, This is unhealthy. Get on
with your life. Your dead loved ones would not want you obsessing like this. Yet we encourage just this sort
of behaviour with 9/11. I think what motivates some of those behind these memorials are racists who want to fan the flames of hatred for all Muslims.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Excuse to End War

Let’s say somebody blew the legs off a 5 year old in your extended family, or
blew your grandmother’s head with a high-powered rifle, or turned your brother-in-law to splatter with a
cluster bomb. It not just the victims that suffer. The relatives carry the pain the rest of their lives. That
violence creates spiral of revenge and hate. President Obama is reputed to be an unusually intelligent man, but he
is a nitwit when it comes to war. He thinks he need an excuse to put an end to it.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Excuses to Attack First

Like Nazis and Israelis, Americans believe have a holy right to attack others unprovoked, on the grounds they
guess the other county might, in future, develop the ability to attack them. This is like pleading self defence for
feeding your neighbour to a wood chipper because you thought he might next summer buy some archery gear and
threaten you with it.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Excuses to Avoid the Draft

I find it odd that one cannot avoid military service for the following sensible reasons:

The war in which you will serve is illegal.

You don’t think it wise to kill people of all ages and sexes on the other side of the planet who are no
threat to your country.

You don’t want to be killed or maimed.

However, you can avoid it by claiming you believe an invisible, imaginary man up in the sky will torture you
after you are dead if you participate.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Excuses of a Child Rapist

When a man volunteers to rape, torture and kill children and women, I don’t believe him
when he offers some vague noble-sounding excuse like defending freedom. We all know
darn well he would have done it for any excuse.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Excuses for Killing

Soldiers often offer lame excuses for enlisting and going to Afghanistan or Iraq to butcher children who were no
threat to anyone. Commonly they whine they were having trouble finding work. They refuse to acknowledge that not
only is killing kids morally reprehensible, it is illegal. Aiding an abetting an aggressive (first strike) war is a capital crime. Their excuse is even less valid than had Nazi
soldiers used it. There is no gun forcing Canadian or Americans to enlist. The could have made more money in the
Mafia or a drug gang. At least then they would be killing and torturing children.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Excuses for Nukes

Can you think of any principle other than might makes right that would justify the
USA, Britain, India, Pakistan etc. clinging to nuclear weapons and refusing inspections, when they block other
nations from getting them and demand they submit to surprise inspections to make sure they don’t.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Excuses for Sadism

Men like killing for the sexual pleasure of it. They make up the most preposterous childish
silly excuses for it. Excuses have included self defence (even when the killers attacked first unprovoked), my
religion is better than yours, we need more room, God gave us title to your land, your leader ran off with our
leader’s wife, we need to teach you to treat women more chivalrously, my economic system is better than
yours, you would rather not be part of our country any more.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Excusing the Soldiers

In the aftermath of Robert Bales confessing to butchering 9 Afghan children and
7 adult civilians as they slept, Americans are eager to forgive their troops for any
atrocities they committed. They want to put the blame 100% on the politicians. This is
much like Nazi soldiers excusing themselves after WWII
by claiming I vas chust following zee orders. Nuremberg settled the matter once and for
all that this excuse does not wash. Further, the American soldiers volunteered with eyes wide open
to go kill Afghan and Iraqi children. They were not drafted. They knew full well what they would be ordered to do. They were eager to kill. They knew full well neither Afghanistan nor Iraq attacked
the USA and had to means to do so. They knew the USA was the aggressor. They might not have fully understood that
attack was illegal, or that aiding an abetting either war was a capital offence, but ignorance of the law is no
excuse.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Executions

China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, United States, Iraq, Viet Nam. Why is the USA on this list of
disreputable countries? The USA is #5 in executions, just behind North Korea. Executing
this many people may satisfy a desire for revenge, but it clearly does not work to reduce murders.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Exit Strategy

There was no exit strategy for Iraq because the Cheney/Bush administration never planned to leave. Why would
they leave before all the oil and gas were gone? The trillion dollar plus investment in gaining control of the oil
would make no sense if Americans just handed it back to Iraq. Obama announced the phased withdrawal from Iraq on
the same day he announced the auction of all of Iraq’s oil resources where the invited buyers were American
and European oil companies.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Expert or Amateur: Which is the Real Al Qaeda?

If it were Al Qaeda that successfully pulled off 9/11, the most intricate terrorist
attack of all time without any inside help, as George W. Bush asserts, why has every Al Qaeda attack since has been
embarrassingly amateurish and incompetent? You’d think they would get better with practice.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Explosives in Surgery

Whenever the American military talk about surgical strikes I wonder how you would
remove a breast tumor with a 50 kg(110.23 lbs)
bomb without killing the patient and everyone else in the room.

Imagine if don’t ask don’t tell applied to blacks. They could serve in the military only if they
bleached their skin and straightened their hair. Or Jews if they pretended to worship Jesus, or women if they taped
their breasts and shaved their hair.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Exterminating the Buffalo

General Sherman orchestrated a program to slaughter all the buffalo in the USA because they wanted to destroy
the food supply of the native people.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Extinction of Alpha Males

To America’s eternal shame, they systematically exterminated the black alpha males during
reconstruction.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Faces of Sadists

Belgian UN
troops forced a young Somali to eat pork (extreme Islamic taboo), drink salt water and then eat his own vomit.
Others roasted a Somali boy over a flaming fire and urinated on a murdered Somali. These are Belgians, not Nazis,
Russians or Americans. Belgians are the people who perfected chocolate and pommes frite. Why did these Belgian
soldiers do this? Look at the glee on the face of the soldier on the left in the photo. These men are sadists. They
enlisted for opportunities to humiliate and hurt people. There no possible motive of self defence. Belgium is not
under attack and if it were, the entire EU would race to its defence. This same sadism is the reason young
Americans enlisted for the Afghan and Iraq wars. It is the same reason no sane young woman (or man) should consider
marrying a soldier of any nationality.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Failed Reconstruction

In the Peter Sellers comedy The Mouse That Roared, the tiny Duchy of Grand Fenwick provoked the USA
to attack, hoping the money pouring in for reconstruction after they lost would rescue their crumbling finances. If
that logic were true, Afghanistan should be rolling, however, it is now the poorest country in Asia, behind even
North Korea and Myanmar.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Failure Analysis

History and historical documentaries study ancient battles from the point of view of a general, wondering how
the mayhem could have been more effectively administered. I would like to study them from the point of view of
studying the crash of an airliner. What failures of social structures made it impossible to avoid the war, with the
end to preventing future crashes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Failure to Check Out

If someone were going to sign up for space travel, or a couple of years in Antarctica, you’d think they
would check it out with others who have done it before. Yet young sadists enlist for illegal wars every day without
talking to even a single vet. All they consider are video games, movies, recruiting commercials and their secret
fantasies. No wonder there are so many people coming back with lifelong PTSD.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Faker America

Aficionados of murder mysteries will recognise the archetype America. She contrives flimsy excuses for murder
based on self defence. She milks the rôle of victim with melodramatic zeal. She endeavours to make her kills
look like natural causes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

False Excuses For Child Killing

Our leaders callously lied to us that it was necessary to kill children in Afghanistan and Iraq to protect us from
bin Laden even though:

The alleged 9/11 hijackers were Saudi.

None of the alleged 9/11 hijackers were Afghan or Iraqi.

The head of Pakistan’s ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence)
wired $100K to the lead hijacker.

There are, by US military estimate, less than 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

bin Laden was presumed (correctly) to be hiding out in Pakistan not Afghanistan or Iraq.

Now that bin Laden is dead, what is Obama and Harper’s new excuse for killing
kids?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Falsely Accused Of Being A Dictator

If a leader got there by democratic election, if he has to face another election within 6 years, if he has support of the majority of the people it really makes no sense to call him a
dictator. Yet American branded Allende, and Chavez dictators solely because they were no fan of Republican
economics. On the contrary, Americans prop up even the most vicious unprincipled dictators if they subscribe to
Milton Friedman’s be-nice-to-the-rich-and-bastards-to-the-poor economic theories.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Americans succumbed to the temptation to mass torture out of four motives:

fear

the motive of the naïve
person in the street, as if Iraqi peasants had any conceivable means to harm them.

sadism

Bush and Cheney’s motive.

racism

the anaesthetic for conscience and common sense. Americans would never have tortured Caucasian
Christians so casually. American Christians tortured brown-skinned Iraqi and Afghan Muslims with the same
religious fervour that the Catholic Inquisition tortured the Albigensian heretics.

conceit

Americans are in a position much like the waning days of the British Empire. Their insecurity
makes them wish to punish anyone who tacitly refuses to acknowledge American privilege and superiority.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Fear of ISIS

If you are afraid of ISIS, it is because you have a guilty
conscience. They have a minute fraction of the military might of Canada or the USA. We attacked the countries of
the middle east and stole their resources, not the reverse.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Feeble Excuse for Mayhem

Americans are so self-centred and conceited that they imagine they are justified in invading and occupying a
country for 15 years and 2 months
and plundering its resources simply on the grounds they thought a fugitive might be hiding there. (It turns out
there were wrong, but they kept on and on occupying Afghanistan. What a nation of weasel-mouthed mirror-wankers!)
Would they invade, occupy and plunder Mexico or Columbia with the same feeble excuse?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Feeble Excuses

Commentator Rex Murphy excused the Americans killing Iraqi civilians because Iraqis killed collaborators and
there was Shiite/Sunni killing as well. This is like excusing Stalin because Hitler killed people too.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Fighters?

Given that ISIS has no aircraft, why are we sending fighter jets to engage them? You would think bombers are
what is required.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Fighting Against Religious Freedom

Americans tell me they are killing people in Afghanistan because they want to terrorise the Muslims there into
giving up Islam with its oppression of women, religious intolerance and harsh treatment of criminals. They also
tell me they are fighting for freedom and to stamp out terrorism. Isn’t killing Muslims for refusing to
convert to Christianity a rather blatant assault on religious freedom? Isn’t killing civilians to make them
change religion the very definition of terrorism? How is it Americans never notice the irony?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Fighting Al Qaeda?

Obama announced in his 2010-05-12 joint press conference with Hamid Karzai that the
USA had been fighting in Afghanistan for over 9 years to protect the USA from attacks
from Al Qaeda. However, his own generals announced there were less than 100 Al Qaeda in
Afghanistan. This is like making a decade-long war on a threat much smaller than Monaco. His explanation does not
pass the laugh test.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Flavours of War Story

Listen to vets telling their war stories. Vets of WWI
and WWII
are grim; their stories are about fear. Those of Afghanistan or the two Iraq wars are joyful, as though recounting
a hockey or video game triumph.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Folly of Killing Civilians

In WWII
the resistance attacked the occupying Nazis with bombs in often suicidal attacks. In 2012-08 the Taliban made suicide attacks against ordinary Afghan citizens. What on earth are they
thinking? I could understand them attacking the occupying Americans, or Afghan collaborators, but why ordinary
citizens? This certainly won’t win them any hearts and minds. It won’ punish the Americans or make them
leave any sooner. It almost as if they are angry and frustrated, so take it out on the easiest victims. Maybe they
see all Afghans but themselves as active collaborators.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Folly Of Paying Your Adversaries

I have to laugh at the naïveté
of the American military paying Taliban to switch sides. I could see Taliban signing up by the thousands, taking
the money to buy rockets to blow up Americans and acting as spies.

Only the must unscrupulous people cave to an occupying power. They may pretend to collaborate with the occupying
force of course. Consider the Nazi occupation of France. Imagining the Taliban now love you after what you did to
their children and their country just because you tossed them a few bucks is naïve
to the nth degree.

The military must be mentally ill, with monumental conceit, to imagine the Taliban could ever forgive them, must
less join them.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Folly of War With Iran

Americans are very concerned that in a war with Iran, Israel could be harmed. On 2002-01-29, in his SOTU
speech, transcript, Bush vowed to
annihilate Iran, presumably triggering Iran to develop nukes to deter that attack following the lead of North Korea
which used that same strategy to successfully fend off a similar attack. Now America is talking about preemptively
attacking Iran, starting a nasty war where Iran would block the Straits of Hormuz and with it most of the
world’s oil. Iran is fully aware that if it used nukes, the USA would obliterate it with a rain of
ICBM (Inter Continental Ballistic Missile)
s. It sounds like the cure is far worse than the disease. It is hypocritical of the USA and Israel to arms
themselves to the teeth with nukes and expect those they threaten to disarm and roll over and welcome invasion and
theft of their natural resources the way Iraq and Afghanistan did.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Foolish Military Spending

If all goes well, whatever you spend billions on to buy for the military will never be used. So it makes sense,
at the very least, to direct that money to help the domestic economy. Further, if you buy your military hardware
from some foreign power, that power knows all the secrets of construction of your military equipment and they can
cut you off at any time they please and they can sabotage you by accident, as China
did to Canada, at any time they find convenient.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

For Deterrence Only

Every time military people have persuaded the politicians to fund some new terror weapon for deterrence the found an excuse to use it. They are like little boys. The desire to play with a
new military toy is irresistible. Kennedy barely managed to contain his generals from taking
ICBMs
for a trial run.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

For the Oil

If you ask an Iraqi why the USA is occupying their country, to a man, they will tell you for the oil They have almost no other wealth. No wonder they fight like a cornered mongoose to hold
onto it. The one other major piece of wealth they had was a stock of seeds that could grow in high temperature and
drought conditions, created over thousands of years. Monsanto stole it all with the help of the US military.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Fred Phelps

On 2011-03-02 the US Supreme Court ruled that professional lunatic Fred (godHatesFag.com) Phelps could picket military funerals for reasons nothing to do with the soldiers
or their families. It is odd that nobody pickets these funerals on the grounds the dead soldiers are
war criminals, openly guilty of a capital crime,
namely aiding and abetting an aggressive (first strike) illegal war. The families are
guilty of living off the avails of these crimes. Americans have their heads in the sand about the legality of their
two wars. They don’t want them to be illegal, so they collectively pretend they are legitimate.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Friction Leads To War

One of the most disturbing ideas Machiavelli promotes is that friction always leads to war. The only question is
when to hold the war to your maximal advantage. He believes there is no point in trying to
postpone or avoid war entirely. The cost of war financially, in lives and property damage is much higher now than
in Machiavelli’s time, but I fear many international leaders are still thinking like Machiavelli.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Friendly Enemies

America made a $60 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia. What? Is that the same
Saudi Arabia that provided the funding and suicide attackers on 9/11? Is that the same
Saudi Arabia that is arch enemies with Israel? Is that the same Saudi Arabia that is the centre of Islamic
extremism? Who benefits from this insanity? American arms dealers: Lockheed Martin, who make the F-35 fighter and
McDonnell Douglas, who make the F-15 fighter. Americans are completely nuts. They arm Saudi Arabia, the country
whose people attacked them on 9/11 and pound the bejesus out of two other countries,
Afghanistan and Iraq, that had nothing to do with 9/11.

History may reveal Obama made a deal with Lockheed Martin and McDonnell Douglas. They would let him ramp down
the Afghan/Iraq wars a notch in return for the Saudi contract, which is quite politically embarrassing to Obama.
Obama will appear weak on terrorism at a time when he is in trouble in the polls. This just goes to show you the
power of the defence industry. The sole purpose of Lockheed Martin and McDonnell
Douglas is to make money for their shareholders. The only way they can do that is to foment wars wherever they can
or drag out existing ones. How can Obama possibly broker peace in the middle east with these two gorillas from hell
threatening to destroy him if he does not help perpetuate war? They sell to all sides.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Fuck the Legion

It managed to trademark the poppy and has been throwing its weight around threatening to sue little old
ladies knitting
poppies and war protesters wearing white poppies. Trademarking the poppy is as absurd as trademarking the
rose, the pumpkin or the Christmas tree.

Its only quasi-legitimate functions are providing pubs with lax drinking law enforcement in areas that cannot
financially support a commercial pub and hosting a monthly meat lottery.

It glorifies war with grotesquely maudlin and syrupy propaganda trying to convince us that
all dead soldiers even psychopaths who raped and tortured children in the illegal Afghanistan
war are glorious heroes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Fuck Morality

Very few Germans publicly questioned the righteousness of Hitler invading his neighbours unprovoked, so it is
not surprising most Americans have no moral qualms about invading and occupying Iraq and Afghanistan. Americans are
concerned about American casualties, war costs and oil — not about morality or legality.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Fuck Red Poppies

I refuse to wear a red poppy. Damned if I will honour today’s war criminals fighting in illegal
aggressive wars. Honouring them cheapens the sacrifice of those who truly did serve and
defend their country.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Fuck the World Court

merica does not recognise the authority of the World Court in the Hague. It flagrantly violates the Geneva
Conventions and the Nuremberg principle that a country may not invade another without being attacked first.
Similarly, Bonnie and Clyde did not recognise the authority of the US courts, however, that did not prevent the US
justice system from eventually nailing them.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Fudging the Counts

As of 2010-04-11, the US military claims it has killed only 4000 Afghan civilians, all by mistake. This is absurd. When you drop bombs on cities you know that
50% of the victims will be children simply because 50% of the
people in the buildings you blow up in Afghanistan are children. Half of the rest will be women. Only a small
fraction will be combatants. There is nothing at all accidental about the killing. The military don’t count
the over 1,000,000 civilians they starved and froze to death in the first winter of the
war by cutting off all supplies including humanitarian aid. They also don’t count kills by special forces or
contractors.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Function of God in War

In a war, both sides imagine they are in the right and a deity is on their side. The worse they behave, the more
they have to convince themselves of the justness of their cause to justify their atrocities. Note, for example, how
Americans fancy themselves as the saviours of the planet. They are also the only nation to routinely use banned
weapons, torture, target primarily civilians and to attack unprovoked.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Function of the Navy

The Navy should stick to what it does best — making porn videos.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Funding Wars

Wars, like other government projects, require funding. They must compete for funding, just like other
mega-projects promoted by lobbyists. The lobbyists with the biggest purses to sell their wars both to the
politicians and the public are the ones promoting resource wars with the highest financial return. As Dr. Bethune
put it, It is the secret of all wars: profit.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Funny Lunatics

My parents used to go to the movie theatre. They would watch Hitler screaming and shouting in German. The
audience would roll with laughter. We have new lunatics that seem equally funny: Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich, Rand
Paul…

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Futility of Bribery

Americans are so fixated by the metaphor of war as football game that they imagine they can win the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq by offering a better pay contract to the other side’s playersto get them to switch teams. That is insane. If Nazis invaded
your country and made such an offer what would you do? Take the money, infiltrate them and defeat the invaders from
the inside!

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Futility of Torture

The movie Zero Dark Thirty presented itself as the true story of how torture aided the capture of
bin Laden. In fact, it did the very opposite. Tortured people tell their tormentors whatever they think they want
to hear. The information gleaned was false and sent the Americans off on a wild goose chase. This should be
obvious. It did not sink in just how obvious it is until I heard a CBC
interview with Meher Arar, a Canadian improperly handed over to the Syrians for torture. The movie dishonestly
tries to sell torture as legitimate and effective when it is neither, all the while posing as the liberal view. I
think a few days torture for the film makers, financial backers and cast might be a fitting punishment for this
Nazi-like attack on public morals.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Fêted Child Serial Killers

An unusually sick serial killer might kill a dozen people in a lifetime. Yet a soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan
could kill than many children in a few seconds and it would not be in the least remarkable. He would come home and
be feted as a hero and trusted to be left alone with children.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Gang Raping Soldiers

Soldiers are prone to gang rape. About three men take turns raping a girl. They cut off parts of her anatomy.
This makes no sense morally or from a Darwinian point of view. Injuring the girl makes it more difficult for her to
raise any offspring that may arise from the rape. The men can infect each other with their semen. The blood from
the girl can infect the men. But then soldiers are not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Garden Variety War Criminals

If you are a soldier and you lost some of your arms and legs and if you were injured in an illegal war (one
where your country struck first), then you are lucky. You deserved a far worse punishment for your committed a
capital crime. Your family too deserves to suffer for supporting you in your criminal enterprise. Neither you nor
they deserve any pensions or financial support. I was just following orders is not a
valid excuse. Ask all the Nazis hanged at the end of WWII
for aiding and abetting an aggressive (first strike) war.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Gaza War Stats

In 2009-01 Israel invaded Gaza and bombed and killed over 2000 random people. Hamas killed 4 Israelis. Such is the power of propaganda that most North
Americans see Hamas as the more blood thirsty.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

General Errors

Generals can be counted on to make two mistakes:

Preparing to refight the last war.

Underestimating their adversaries.

I will find it amusing when Americans find their own weapons turning against them in a future cyberwar.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Geneva Conventions

In 1996, the USA made violating the Geneva Conventions punishable by death. The Bush
Administration violated the Geneva Conventions thousands of times in the Afghan and Iraq wars. Bush even called
them quaint.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Getting Rid Of An Evil Leader

Consider powerful, evil, mad leaders such as Caligula, Genghis Khan, King Henry VIII,
Napoléon
Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, Adi Amin, Pol Pot, Robert Mugabe, Kim Jong Il, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush… Mankind
has not developed an effective way to get rid of such leaders. The only way we have is for someone to assassinate
them at terrible difficulty and risk to themselves and quite possibly when the leader is innocent. Impeachment does
not work since a powerful corrupt leader is willing to kill or ruin anyone who acts against him.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Gift That Keeps on Killing

What were the Americans thinking when they planted land mines in Viet Nam designed to keep on killing even
50 years later?

They figured the war would still be ongoing?

They wanted to rip the legs off Viet Namese children, yet unborn, to punish them for the sins of their grand
parents, namely refusing to submit to the American occupation?

It is a wonder that Americans enjoy a reputation any better than Nazis. How else could it be but the fruits of
dogged self-promotion?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Gilded Shit Vets

Vets of the Viet Nam war, especially those captured and kept in prison camps, feel hard done by. They forget
they swooped over Viet Nam burning children alive. Surely anything done to them in the prison
camps, including even being burnt alive, was a mild punishment for such unprovoked attacks. The Viet Namese did not
even threaten America much less attack them.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Giuliani Announced Pentagon Hit Before It Happened

Rudy I-kid-you-not Giuliani

Rudy I-kid-you-not Giuliani

It is possible there were no Americans involved (possibly coerced) in the planning and execution of 9/11 but some Americans certainly knew it was going to happen. How else can you explain Rudy Giuliani
accidentally announcing the plane hit on the Pentagon before it happened? How do you explain the phone call from an
undisclosed source warning Willy Brown to cancel his plane flight? How do you explain the investors (whose names
have been kept secret to this day) who made a killing selling short on American Airlines stock? How do you explain
why so many people stayed home from work at the Twin Towers on 9/11 after receiving
warnings? Finally, even the Bush administration admits some of its anti-terrorist people passed on warnings that
got stuck in the bureaucracy. If you were one of them, would you have not passed on the warning to those dear to
you in harm’s way despite the official secrets act? If you were one of those people notified, could you help
yourself from warning a few others, no matter what the consequences for passing on a state secret? Knowing how much
Cheney and others in the government and military enjoy torturing people in secret prisons, would you ever talk
publicly about this?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Give It A Rest

CBC
Radio, the Harper government propaganda organ, about twice a day broadcasts a piece about some war Canada once
fought to help sell the military and war generally. It might be the War of 1812,
WWI, WWII, Korea, Afghanistan… Basically it gloats
about winning, patting Canadians on the back for being so brave and clever to defeat the wicked enemy.

They still use the old racist terms for their opponents and talk about them, as they did during the war, as if
they were subhuman. They don’t ever mention current relations. There is never any discussion of the causes of
the wars, or how they might have been avoided. This reminds me of a married couple where the wife recites a litany
of all the things her husband ever did wrong, over and over and over.

I suggested to the CBC that modern day Germans might
find this constant dredging up hoary old disputes irritating. Most Germans were not even born when all this
happened. The CBC said the Germans would not take
offence and between the lines suggested, they did not give a flying fuck if they did.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Giving Up Killing

Ending war requires convincing young men to forgo the selfish pleasure of killing.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Glad They Died

Whenever I see movies involving post 1960 wars and a soldier from the aggressor
country is killed or maimed, I have a sense of satisfaction. One more of these bastards who enjoy hurting others
met a fitting end and has left the gene pool. My attitude conflicts with the violins soaring and the other actors
bawling their eyes out as they strut about in their pompous little uniforms. When soldiers come home fresh from
slaughtering other people’s children and embrace children, I cringe, just as if I would if the soldier were a
known domestic homicidal pedophile.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Glorifying the Military

All North American radio stations, TV stations, newspapers a major magazines glorify the military. They never
mention the fact the wars are illegal or pointless or that defence of North America is not an issue. They are
silent about the fact these are aggressive resource wars. They never mention what truly motivates the soldiers.
They make up excuses for their sadism. They behave exactly as the media did under Hitler. Why do they lie? They are
in little danger. It is herd instinct and cowardice.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Glory in Old Victories

The way Americans and Canadians keep dredging up old battles from WWI
and WWII
and how we trounced the Germans or Japanese is so juvenile. Imagine a husband who carefully commemorated every time
he had triumphed over his wife in an argument. Hint. Germany and Japan are now are friends. It is rude to keep
rubbing their noses for crimes of their ancestors.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Goatskin Coracles

I have to laugh at people who claim it is necessary to kill Afghans to protect our freedom. How are they
supposed to invade us, in goatskin coracles? If they arrived on our beaches what chance would they have? Zero.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Why do so few Canadians and Americans protest the Afghan and Iraq wars:

Greed

They want the oil and minerals that are the plunder of war. Of course, they forget about the cost
in money and lives.

Bigotry

They enjoy the idea of non-Christians, non-whites burning alive, even children.

Racism

They harbour all manner of crazed stereotypes about their Muslim victims. It is very similar to
the psychology of lynching that justified torture/murder for being black.

Patriotism

They will always root for the home team, even when it behaves worse than the Nazis.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Group Punishment

The ancient Romans believed in group punishment, punishing people for the crimes of
others. If the resistance attacked a Roman soldier, the Romans would line up everyone in the village and kill every
tenth person, a process they called decimating. Hitler did the same thing killing one in
thirty. Americans and Israelis have their own variant. They kill at least 100 random
children, usually with explosives, whose parents need have no connection to the resistance at all. They call this
defending themselves and feel quite self righteous about the moral propriety of punishing
children for the crimes of unrelated adults.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Guilt Paradoxes

guilt paradoxes

The Japanese felt no guilt about attacking Pearl Harbour.

Americans believe the attack on Pearl Harbour will live in infamy.

Canadians think the Americans nuking two cities was excessive.

Americans think nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki served the Japs damn well right. There was no other
choice.

Canadians think that Americans attacking Iraq without provocation was wrong. It was especially bad to
pretend it was done out of nuclear self defence.

Americans think that attacking Iraq was a noble deed. It was a very generous gift to give to the people
of Iraq.

Germans thought that attacking Poland was a noble deed.

Americans consider Hitler putting Jews in concentration camps and starving them to death the biggest
atrocity in recorded history.

Germans saw the treatment of Jews in WWII
as justified.

Germans thought is was ok to beat up Jews and confiscate their property.

Americans think it is ok to mass-torture Muslims, kill their children and confiscate their property.

Canadians insist their soldiers never kill anyone in Afghanistan but the worst terrorists. Canadians
would never dream of dropping bombs on children, but if they did, there was no other choice.

Can you see the pattern of how human psychology works to explain how different people look on the exact same
deeds and see something completely different?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Guilty Doctors

Surely doctors who collaborated with the Americans in torturing prisoners have forfeited the right ever to
practice medicine again.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Had Hitler Won

Had Hitler won WWII, I am pretty sure he would have tried to sweep the
atrocities, the illegality and the immorality of his war under the rug, just as Obama is doing now with the Iraq
war he inherited.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Hamid Karzai

Hamid Karzai is arguably the biggest drug dealer and most corrupt dictator on the planet. It madness to push
such an unpopular man down the throats of the Afghans and claim he represents the gift of democracy. Much as
we dislike the Taliban, they represent the current democratic choice of Afghans. We should trust
the democratic process and trust the Afghans given the tools of democracy to bring in a more enlightened
government, perhaps one we don’t like that much, but that is not what democracy is for.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Hamid Karzai, Biggest Crook on Earth

America is turning democracy into a joke by forcing a war lord and drug lord as crooked as Hamid Karzai down the
throats of the Afghan people, even after he was caught stuffing 20% of the ballots. It is
not democracy unless the people governed make the decisions about who will lead them. The Taliban have won the
hearts and minds of the majority of the Afghan people. It is not democracy when you exclude those you don’t
like from the political process.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Hanging Offence, Ho Hum

I have yet to meet an American who thinks a war crime is a big deal. Either they are unaware/deny that aiding
and abetting an aggressive (first strike) war on another country is a capital crime, or they say they will never be
prosecuted for it because they are too small a fish, or because the USA protects its citizens from prosecution in
the world court. Do they feel this way about all crimes? Are those with a fool proof scheme to get away with bank
robbery or child rape also effectively innocent?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Harbouring Cheney is as Illegal as Harbouring Bin Laden

Dick Cheney is a wanted war criminal for trial at the Hague. He avoid trips to Europe to avoid prosecution. The
USA harbours him. This is illegal. The USA is required by treaty obligations to hand him over.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Hate Causes Irrational Behaviour

Hitler’s hatred of the Jews caused him to kill them before and during WWII. Had he been more rational, he would have used them as cannon fodder, won the war,
then betrayed them.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Hawk Self Deception

The only way a hawk can maintain his pro-war stance is by massively lying to himself and blocking out the
hideousness of war.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Hawk/Dove Test

This is an epitaph from Greece circa 450 AD. This memorial is set
over the body of a very good man. Pythion from Megara, slew seven men and broke off seven spear points in their
bodies… This man, who saved three Athenian regiments… having brought sorrow to no one among all men
who dwell on earth went down to the underworld, felicitated by all. If you see comic irony, you are a dove.
If you don’t, you are a hawk who likely celebrates the deeds of child rapists and serial murderers as
heroic.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Heartless Cheney

It is too bad that Dick Cheney will probably die before facing trial for his war crimes and subversion of the
constitution. Known for his heartless condoning of torture, he now literally has no heart. He had it replaced with
a temporary blood pump.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Help Yourself

You may have noticed how quotations pop up at random all over my website, aimed at exposing the idiocy of war.
You are welcome to use any or all of the quotations in my
quotation collection
in a similar way on your own website. To get your point across these days, you have to shrink it to a sound
bite.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Helping ISIS

When the CBC
gave ISIS’s 6-minute video a better
review and more coverage than either the new Star Wars or James Bond movies, its creators probably consider this a
miraculous gift from Allah to spread the Word. Then again, possibly the video is acting as a decoy, intended to
lure would-be Canadian terrorists to contact its director.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Herd Cowardice

War persists because of herd cowardice. People let their leaders and soldiers get away with the most
preposterous lies because everyone else does. They are afraid to be the only one to tell the truth. So they pretend
to believe the lie, which further disheartens others who also see the lie.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Heroes vs Soldiers

American has great heroes, the 9/11 responders for one. They risked and literally gave
their lives to save others. They are the complete opposite of those who volunteered to butcher children in
Afghanistan and Iraq for their sadistic jollies, telling me they did it for the money, as if that were an excuse
for serial child murder.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Heroin War

Canada, along with the USA and Britain, invaded Afghanistan in 2001. They installed
the world’s biggest heroin drug lord, Hamid Karzai as puppet dictator. The Taliban had all but eliminated the
heroin trade. Under Canadian rule, it soared to #1 in the world, $1 trillion a year, more than enough to satisfy all the junkies on earth. The Canadians did
absolutely nothing to suppress the heroin trade. It would not have been hard to stop it. After all, the Taliban
were able to without any technology. The Canadians had the advantages of satellite surveillance, martial law, easy
to spot poppies, a desolate landscape, no need for search warrants and no environmental impact studies for mass
herbicide use. The Canadians stand accused of being involved in the drug trade. They deny it. They claim, to a man,
they are all Dudley Dorights. I find this implausible because $1 trillion a year is
enough to bribe every Canadian soldier in Afghanistan with $3.7 billion dollars a
year. It seems the thankless job of being a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan might not me so thankless after
all.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Hiding the Illegality

The American media have worked very hard to hide from the people the fact that both the Afghan and Iraq wars are
illegal. Aiding and abetting an aggressive, (first strike), war is a capital (hanging)
war crime. Even when notables like UN
Secretaries General Boutros Boutros-Ghali
or Kofi Annan or lead Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz explain this, TV networks do not report it.

When I point this out to informed Americans, they remind me that the USA does not recognise the authority of the
World Court. This means the USA does not hand over suspected war criminals to the court, as other countries are
required by treaty to do. This stance does not protect American citizens from prosecution. It is bit like a
powerful bank robber imagining his gang is immune to prosecution because the gang does not recognise the authority
of the police. War criminals Saddam, Milosevic and Eichmann all protested they did not recognise the authority of
the court. It got them nowhere.

Just as few rank and file Nazis were ever prosecuted, so it is mainly the higher ups in the USA who are most at
risk. Perhaps they will be nabbed when carelessly traveling internationally. Cheney avoids European travel for just
that reason. There is also the matter of just how much the USA could intimated the World Court, if, for example, a
high profile criminal like Dick Cheney were captured and tried. The USA could conceivably bomb World Court
signatory countries to get its way, or send in a large contingent of Navy seals to spring him.

But that does not change the fact any friend or loved one who serves in those two wars is has committed a
capital crime whether they are ever prosecuted or not. It is preposterous to claim any act they committed as part
of that crime was heroic. It is like talking of heroic bank robbers.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Hiding Kills

Starting about 2000, combatants started to hide their kills. Instead of exaggerating
them, they denied them, the blamed third parties and even blamed the victims who were doing it ostensibly to gain
sympathy.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Hierarchical Military

The military is a hierarchy where superiors browbeat, abuse and bully their inferiors. Everyone gets Stockholm
syndrome and starts to feel proud of the abuse they have endured.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

High Moral Ground

Oddly, I don’t hear Americans accusing the Afghans and Iraqis of attacking other nations unprovoked, using
banned weapons, ignoring the Geneva conventions and routinely torturing P.O.W.s… Yet the Americans do those
things openly plus rendition, indefinite imprisonment without trial and target civilians… So who has the
moral high ground?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Hired Killers

Some soldiers have assured me that the only reason they kill people (innocent and otherwise) is because they are
paid to and they can’t get any other job. You could say that equally well for someone who signed up as a hit
man with the Mafia. Mafiosi rarely butcher children, so such soldiers are morally inferior to Mafia hit men. This
is hardly a honourable excuse for murder. But I don’t believe even this lame excuse for a minute. The pay is
terrible, the hours exhausting, the conditions miserable, the locations hellish and the risks to health, life and
limb excessive. They enlist despite the low pay and terrible conditions. In Canada, they enlist
even when the pay is lower than welfare. In other words, they enlist because they either like killing or enjoy
being ordered to kill.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Historical Cons

Circa 1804, General William Henry Harrison would hold parties and get groups of
ordinary natives drunk out of their minds, then get them to sign treaties handing over their lands without
compensation. These were just ordinary men without authority to sign treaties. The US government insisted these
phony treaties were valid and killed the natives living on those ceded lands as trespassers.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Historical Serial Killers

To understand Bush and Cheney, you need to study the life stories of the great serial killers of history. In
particular, study how they appear on the surface to be charming likeable men. Learn how they get extreme sexual
pleasure from humiliating and inflicting pain on others. They come from toxic families. They successfully pull off
their crimes because no one can believe it is possible they could be such fiends.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Hitler and Bush

Hitler attacked other countries unprovoked, starved civilians to death many of them children and executed over a
million of them using the same gas the USA used for gas chambers. George W. Bush did all these things plus routine
torture of P.O.W.s, plus use of banned weapons such as white phosphorus, cluster bombs, land mines and napalm to
burn people alive and depleted uranium to deform their fetuses for generations to come. Bush collected kiddie rape
videos. Bush declared the Geneva conventions quaint and destroyed electric, water and
sewer plants to trigger epidemics of cholera and other water-born diseases. Yet in the popular estimation, Hitler
was an unspeakable monster and Bush was merely misbehaved. America treats Bush as an indulgent mother treats her
serial-murdering son.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Hitler the Hero

If Hitler had not been quite so grandiose and set out to conquer the world only a country at a time, today, we
would consider him a great hero. The winners get to write the history books.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Hitler’s Other Victims

Everyone has heard about the 6 million Jews that Hitler executed. But how often you
hear about his 12 million other victims — the homosexuals, the gypsies, the
leftists, the disabled, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Serbs…? I suspect modern day Republicans quietly
envy Hitler’s bloody minded treatment of these groups that they despise too.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Hitler’s Unilateral Disarmament

In WWII Hitler sent V2 Rockets to bomb London. These
rockets cost roughly the same as a fighter plane. That was like building fighter planes that dropped at best one
bomb on a random target then were shot down, hardly sustainable economics for a weapon.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Holy Soldiers

To Americans, the soldiers are the holiest people. They are exempt from all laws of civil society. They can
rape, torture and murder and still be called heroes Even a CSI (Crime Scene Investigator)
autopsy of a war criminal is accompanied with special holy music not accorded any other class of victim.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Home Invasion

The Iraq war amounts to home invasion on a massive scale, yet Americans can’t understand why the rest of
the world, including the international court, considers what they are doing criminal.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

How Animals Fight

Watch animals e.g. insects, reptiles, deer, birds— They strut and glare at each other, deciding which one
would be more likely to win a fight. The weaker withdraws. Only if they are too closely matched to make the
determination do they actually fight. And even then they do, they do it in a ritualised way and the fight stops as
soon as the stronger is determined. Rarely is either animal seriously injured.

Humans have delusions of grandeur. They overestimate their own strength (e.g. that a deity will tip the balance
in their favour) and hence get into fights when they have no chance of prevailing. Further, they fight in ways that
cause permanent injury or death.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

How Big A Military

You don’t need a military bigger than everyone else put together just to defend yourself. It has to be for
world domination.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

How Cowards Justify Killing Children

American soldiers justify killing children in Afghanistan and Iraq in two main ways:

The children might be armed. It is thus necessary to kill them in pre-emptive self defence.

The children will grow up to be terrorists. We must kill them while they are still easy to kill.

I answer thusly:

You put yourself in harm’s way by enlisting to kill people in Afghanistan and Iraq. You killed that
child’s parents. You raped his sister. You tortured his brother. You showered his playmates in white
phosphorus. Of course, he wants to kill you. You deserve to be killed. You attacked him, not the reverse. He is
legitimately defending himself against an illegal invader.

People in Afghanistan and Iraq make less that $5 a month. Those peasants have
no means to mount an attack on the USA. Even after a decade of war, they have not mounted even one attack. Those
mounting domestic terrorist attacks are American citizens, not Afghan citizens, disgusted with their own
country’s behaviour. If you want to discourage attacks, stop behaving like Nazis.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

How To Destroy The USA

If someone wanted to destroy the United States, a military attack would be futile. The USA spends almost as much
its military technology than everyone else put together. I can see two other approaches with much higher
probability of success:

Exploit the fact that computers and the Internet were not designed with security in mind and that economics
have demanded nobody fix the problems. Even as single desktop computer in the hands of a sufficiently clever team
could shut the USA down.

The other method would take longer, but would be much harder to defend against. Fund religious fundamentalist
politicians. They will destroy the country for you by making unscientific, irrational decisions and shutting down
science education. The catch is they might take the whole planet down with them.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

How To Destroy the USA

If someone wanted to destroy the USA, the approach least likely to succeed would be a military invasion. The
approach with the greatest chance of success would be to see that a motley collection of nitwits, cranks and
crazies were elected. They would disrupt government having no concept of how it worked and no loyalty to the big
picture just to their crank theories. The Koch brothers are succeeding in just such a coup and it does not occur to
anyone to try them for treason. We have seen so many times before when a democracy becomes hamstrung by traitors, a
dictator can easily walk in.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

How Do We Know?

Nearly everyone is completely convinced Al Qaeda and bin Laden were behind 9/11. How
do they know? George W. Bush told them. I can’t think of a single thing that Bush said of significance that
was true, so it seems unlikely that he was fully truthful about 9/11. I want to see a
court case with evidence. Until then, I consider the question open even if most people consider me a communist
terrorist for doing that.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

How Hitler Did It

When I was a teen, I often wondered what on earth got into ordinary German citizens that
they not only went along with the Nazis, they also cheered them on and started a world war so Nazis could dominate
the earth. Finally, I think I understand what happened. Hitler had control of media in Germany, much the way a few
corporations control the media in the USA today. Hitler pumped his We’re Number
One message, just the way American TV pumps its patriotic flag worship, America uber
alles propaganda 24/7. Today, almost every American I encounter has never read a book on politics and does
not read newspapers. He never reads anything written by foreigners. He may listen to
talk radio or watch FOX News or other infotainment news. The way he decides if something is true is very simple. He
asks Does it conflict with the notion Americans are #1, the most important, the most generous,
the most virtuous people on the planet by far? If it does, it can’t be true. If it doesn’t, it
must be true. There is no fact checking at all. Germans and Americans were thus putty in the hands of the
propagandists.

Hitler was big on scapegoats suggesting that if only some group were eliminated all world’s trouble in the
world would go away. Americans are big on scapegoats too. They use liberals, gays, blacks, pro choicers,
Hispanics… Scapegoating has special appeal for losers. Even a high school drop out, alcoholic on welfare can
feel superior to the local scapegoats with twice the income and education. This builds a culture of hate and
violence that eventually erupts the way it did in Nazi Germany.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

How Informed?

It is amusing that Americans imagine they are better informed on what is happening in Iraq and Afghanistan than
the people who live there, especially when their only source is FOX News, a company that freely admits it
manufactures the news for maximum entertainment value. Americans defend their ignorance by considering it
traitorous to even ask an ex-pat Afghan or Iraqi what is going on back home.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

How to Kill Freedom

If a leader has an obsession to micromanage everyone’s lives, he need only declare war claiming it is self
defence or revenge. In war, the people will submit like sheep to any repressive measure. If anyone objects, they
can revile him as a traitor for giving comfort to the enemy.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Recall how the Patriot Act was all ready to go prior to 9/11. It had
clauses nothing to do with terrorism, like absolving Merck of legal responsibility. The silly senators passed it in
a panic before it had even been printed, much less read. America gave up its freedom to treacherous people. Recall
the Orwellian defending freedom rhetoric used to sell it.

How Many People Did You Kill?

Most Americans refuse to believe they killed very many people in Afghanistan or Iraq. Let’s give that a
laugh test. Are weapons more or less efficient than they were in WWII
? There has been a ton of research improving them, but for argument sake, let us presume today’s weapons are
no more efficient (i.e. number of people you can kill per dollar is no higher). In 2011
dollars, WWII
cost $4,104 billion. As of 2010 Iraq had officially cost
$784 billion and Afghanistan $321 billion in
2011 dollars. In WWII, Americans killed
3 million Japanese. Of course, they also killed Nazis in Europe. The cost to kill each
Japanese citizen was thus less than $1,400 in 2011 dollars.
At $1,400 a head, the budget for the Afghan and Iraq wars should have been sufficient
to kill at least 790,000 people. Consider though that compared with Japan, Afghanistan
and Iraq were all but unarmed. Neither Afghanistan nor Iraq had any means to shoot down bombers or sink ships.
Their tanks were wiped out the first day. It was basically shooting fish in a barrel. That should make it much
easier/cheaper to kill each person, meaning far more people than 790,000 should have been
killed for that budget. Also consider that Canada, Britain, NATO
and the coalition of the coerced also contributed to the budget for killing people. And finally the Americans used
an extremely cheap way to kill Afghans at the beginning of the war they did not have available in the war with
Japan. They simply blocked food aid from getting into Afghanistan during a weather-related famine.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

How Much Do Soldiers Like Killing?

Soldiers like killing so much, they will prop up dictators they hate and butcher their friends.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

How To Stop Terrorism

The biggest dent the USA could put in terrorism would be to stop killing civilians. They kill far more than
anyone else.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

How WWII
Was Different

I was born a few years after WWII
wound up. All through my childhood and teen years people wanted to bend my ear with stories of their experiences
during the war. They looked on it fondly as a grand adventure. Back then everyone was involved in some way. Today,
in the Afghan and Iraq wars, only the most bellicose people who want to kill, maim, torture and risk death are
involved. This makes the war more psychologically damaging and makes the veterans less eager to talk about it.
Yesterday’s motivation was defence of home. Today’s motivation is theft of resources, racism and
sadism.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

How You Know Bush Knew There Were No Nukes

If the US military truly believed Iraq had nukes, why did they take no precautions during the invasion? Why did
they not also handle Iraq with kid gloves the way they treat North Korea?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

How You Know Bush Lied

If Bush and his generals truly believed that Saddam had nukes, they would have treated Iraq gingerly, the way
they treated North Korea. However, they went charging in knowing there would be no resistance at all.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Hunger For War

Almost every notable person in history decries war, yet almost every politician lusts for it.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Hunger Strike

The American military want you to think of the hunger strike at
Guantánamo
is like a group of toddlers refusing to eat their carrots. It is much more serious than that. The prisoners who
have been held without trial and without charge are trying to commit suicide to end their torture. The US
government is preventing them from dying so they can continue to torture them. This is really sick, something you
would expect only from the minds of Nazis.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Hydra

Drones are a bit like heroin. If you use them, they temporarily solve your pain problem, but in the long run,
they destroy your overall health. Every time you use a drone, and kill women and children,
ISIS can use it to recruit a couple
of dozen more fighters. Think also of Heracles of Greek mythology battling the many-headed Hydra. Every time he cut
off a head, two immediately grew back in its place.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Hypocrite Hillary

Hillary Clinton demanded the Egyptian authorities not interfere in any way with reporters covering the Egyptian
revolution. Yet she is happy for US authorities to micromanage all coverage of the US invasions of Afghanistan and
Iraq.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Hypothetical Enemies

By far the biggest threat to Canadian security is climate change. There are hundreds of different ways it
seriously threatens us. Yet Prime Minister Harper wants to spend nothing on climate change and the lion’s
share of our defence budget on F35 fighters, a weapon specialised for fighting geographically localised wars
serviceable by aircraft carrier such as the Iraq war. F35s are useless for patrolling the vast expanses of
Canada’s frozen north because they don’t have the range or the ability to handle low temperatures. In
just what scenarios does Mr. Harper plan to use these weapons to defend Canada and against which hypothetical
enemies? He never tells us. Why is he doing this? The only answer I can think of is corruption. Why else but that
he is taking bribes, perhaps technically legal bribes or he is under undisclosed threats? Can you think of other
possible motives to blow the budget on weapons that we can never legitimately use?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Idiot Pride For Soldier Sons

Parents feel utterly sick when they discover the child they have invested so much effort into raising has become
a drug addict, prostitute, rapist or murderer. Yet they feel pride when their child becomes a soldier and butchers
(and sometimes rapes and tortures) other people’s children.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Idiotic War

War is so ubiquitous, we forget how utterly idiotic it is. When soldiers invade a country, they destroy its
infrastructure and homes that they will need months later for the occupation. War selectively culls the fittest
young men, leaving the pudgy, ill and deformed to spawn the next generation. The Pentagon uses more fossil fuels
than anyone else on earth — hardly a wise move when the motive for war is gaining control of dwindling
petroleum supplies. Once the war starts, almost no one on the front line actually enjoys it. Even the sadists
don’t like the living conditions. They just think they will relish it. The people who enjoy war most never go
near the theatre of war. They make billions billing and bilking the government for war materials and services. Why
should they get all the benefits and none of the pain?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

If It Were Done To You

Imagine that Afghanistan had attacked and occupied the USA for 15 years and 2 months. Imagine their excuse for the invasion was they wanted a criminal who might possibly be
hiding in the USA. They wanted him handed over, without an extradition hearing, without negotiating an extradition
treaty. Imagine they deposed president Obama and installed the world’s biggest heroin dealer as dictator.
Imagine they bombed and desecrated churches and synagogues and their soldiers tried to convert people to Islam at
gunpoint. Imagine if they converted the entire economy to produce illegal drugs. How would you judge this
behaviour? Why do you judge it completely differently when it is your country (USA, Canada, Britain) that commits
the crimes?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

If Nazis are Guilty, so are Americans

If you are an American and you hold the citizens of Nazi Germany responsible for the holocaust, then you must
also hold yourself even more responsible for the American genocide of Iraqis, since it is being done in the
open.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

If the Nazis Had Won

What would the world be like had the Nazis won? The winners of the war would still be telling themselves they
were #1 and hence deserved the lions’ share of the world resource pie. Everyone would accept that somehow war
crimes did not count. Torture would be commonplace. Soldiers who tortured, raped and murdered children would be
celebrated as heroes. In other words, it would be little different from the way it is now.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

If Women Ran The Military

If straight women ran the military, it would probably be more democratic and less hierarchical and it would
focus on defence not theft of resources of other countries.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

If You Are A Sadist

Imagine being a sadist who strongly desired to torture some children. There are basically two ways to satisfy
this desire:

Plot to torture some nearby children.

Join the army. Go torture some children on the other side of the world.

What are the advantages to torturing a local child?

No waiting.

No one will shoot at you or blow you up with an IED.

You are more likely to enjoy the prolonged suffering of the parents through radio and TV reports.

What are the advantages torturing a foreign child?

You get ordered to do it. This takes some of the guilt off your shoulders.

Even though it is technically a war crime, for all practical purposes, you will never be prosecuted.

You get paid to do it.

You will find lots of buddies to share and augment the experience with you.

Instruments of torture are provided free.

If you are a racist, you might not feel as much guilt about torturing a foreign child.

Most sadists go the foreign route. I suspect the big draw is being ordered to commit the crimes. The sadists
don’t have to admit to themselves what they are doing. They don’t have to take responsibility. They can
hide behind some BS that they were defending freedom. It is similar to getting someone to push you off the high
diving board because it is just too big an adrenalin rush to do on your own.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Ignoring French Experience

Prior to the Viet Nam war, the French also invaded and eventually decided the war was unwinnable. American pride
made them refuse to even ask the French for a few pointers.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Ignoring the Law Does Not Make It Legal

Just because Americans believe that ignoring the Geneva conventions, torturing and using banned weapons (such as
depleted uranium, cluster bombs, land mines, white phosphorus and napalm) is perfectly acceptable, at least when
Americans do them, does not make them legal, any more than Nazis claiming exterminating Jews was a noble deed made
it so.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Ignoring the Signs

The mother, wife or girlfriend of a serial killer always protest he was a gentle kind boy who would not hurt a
fly. They deny the clues, e.g. that he enjoyed blasting the heads off animals and birds, or enjoyed threatening
people with guns or that he enlisted in the military to go overseas to hunt children.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Ignoring the True Nuclear Danger

I find it odd that the world press consider a countries that cannot deliver a nuclear missile — North
Korea and Iran far more dangerous than those that can — the USA, Russia, Britain, France, Israel, India and
Pakistan. These nuclear countries have a long history of attacking other countries with minor or no
provocation.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Ignoring War Crimes

Americans almost to a man have a religious respect for the military. Even when Americans are upset about the US
military killing children or civilians they never blame the soldiers, even ones who have brazenly committed capital
war crimes. They don’t blame the generals or the president either. About the only outlet for their rage is
recruiters who lie, bully and bribe to trick people into enlisting. Recruiters are becoming frequent murder victims
on crime shows. Americans ignore war crimes much the same way American ignore sex crimes against children committed
by the clergy.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Illegal Invasions

The USA has repeatedly invaded other countries unprovoked. This is illegal. Nazis hanged for doing it. Americans
excuse themselves for it, apparently on the religious belief that America can do no wrong, even when they
can’t see any rational self interest for doing so. Consider Viet Nam, Grenada, Gulf War, Afghanistan,
Iraq… You might be puzzled by the inclusion of the Gulf War. Google Ambassador
Glaspie for how the USA betrayed Saddam to provide the excuse for that war.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Imbalance of Power

Whenever two groups have an armed conflict, you can be pretty sure the one with the most power will behave worse
and the one with the least power will enjoy the worse PR (Public Relations).

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Immorality of American Tactics

Americans claim to be morally superior to suicide bombers because Americans kill with torture, drones, white
phosphorus and napalm. Both use quite effective means of terror, intimidating the entire populations. It seems to
me, that suicide bombing is more sincere. Americans usually kill by remote control, with the idle boredom of a
modern-day Nero playing a video game.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Immune to Prosecution

Only a handful of Americans believe in rule of law. The majority are completely opposed to trying American
soldiers for international war crimes, no matter how serious the alleged crimes. Yet that same majority has no
problem with hanging Nazis at the end of WWII
for those same war crimes. In addition, that same majority feels comfortable with torturing and denying
any civil rights to people simply because the military have labelled them terrorists even when they are not even alleged to have killed any civilians.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Immune to Prosecution

Only a handful of Canadians believe in rule of law. The majority are completely opposed to trying Canadian
soldiers for international war crimes, no matter how serious the alleged crimes. Yet that same majority has no
problem with hanging Nazis at the end of WWII
for those same war crimes. In addition, that same majority feels comfortable with torturing and denying
any civil rights to people simply because the military have labelled them the
enemy.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Impossible Dream

I don’t see how Obama imagines he is going to eliminate ISIS
purely with air power without simultaneously killing every child in Syria and Iraq.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Impossible Surrender

If people are shooting at you, take a second to ask yourself, Did I start this fight by
shooting at them first? If so, there is no way they will stop shooting until you do. Surrender in those
circumstances most of the time, to them, means death. They would be insane to stop fighting! When you are the
attacker, only you can call off the fighting. Americans have said they are willing to keep the
fighting going for a century or more in Afghanistan and Iraq, and they blame the Afghans and Iraqis for refusing to
surrender and die. And American wonder why they are so hated and despised. Neither Afghanistan nor Iraq did
anything to harm the USA or to attack them. They had no means to. They defend their country with kitchen-made
bombs.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

In the Presence of Soldiers

It is amazing how comfortable some people feel near soldiers, even knowing they are brainwashed to kill innocent
people for no reason.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Inca Conquest

In 1491, the year before Columbus landed in the Americas, The Incas had technology in
many ways superior to the Europeans. They managed cities much larger than any in Europe. They built massive earth
works. They had mastered building with stone to precision that even today amazes. The Spanish defeated the peoples
of the Americas not so much via superior weaponry as the accident that the Inca had no immunity to European
infectious diseases. Even measles was fatal. It could just as easily worked the other way. The Europeans could have
lacked immunity to Inca diseases. It could have been an Inca conquest of Europe rather than the other way
around.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Incompetent Terrorists

The success of the Homeland Security people to derail terrorist attacks is astounding. It would seem to me that
a terrorist would be a complete idiot to confide in anyone, yet they apparently nearly always seek out Homeland
Security agents as co-conspirators. This suggests these people are rank amateurs.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Inconsistency

There is something wrong with the universe when George Huguely is facing first degree murder charges for shaking
his girl friend to death while George W. Bush faces not even a legal scolding for killing and torturing millions of
innocent women and children.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Inconsistency In Depicting Crimes

Did you ever notice how oddly inconsistent North Americans are about depicting crimes?

Murder is considered appropriate fare for novels, movies and stories aimed at extremely small children.

TV News tries to capture footage of murders if it can.

If there is a movie about a burglary, the burglars are usually the protagonists.

Dead US soldiers or their coffins are never shown.

US soldiers slaughtering people of other countries for no reason is popular entertainment.

It is highly illegal to film someone actually being killed for entertainment.

Sexual activity that is completely legal is not shown on TV but it may be simulated. The actual sex is
available at extra cost on cable.

It is illegal for pedophiles to look at photos of children in the Sears catalog, but not for anyone
else.

People who look at free photos of naked children on the Internet are punished almost as severely as those who
rape them.

Possession of male-male pornography is sufficient grounds for firing for certain jobs.

It is completely legal to keep a fantasy journal about any crime except child molesting.

Rape and sadistic murder are the themes of the most commonly aired shown on TV — Criminal Minds,
CSI
Miami, NCIS, Bones.

Marijuana is a schedule 1 drug and cocaine a less serious schedule 2. Taking either drug is
considered acceptable viewing in movies for children.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Inconsistent Law

Americans have the most peculiar sense of justice. You can anesthetize a child with chloroform, suffocate her
with duct tape and leave her body to rot for a month in a car trunk and you get off. You can torture a child to
death in Afghanistan who did nothing whatsoever to harm anyone using white phosphorus to make the death as painful
and slow as possible and no one blinks an eye. If you kill enough kids, you will get a medal. But if you have a
miscarriage, the law is down on you for murder.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Inconsistent Nuclear Policy

Why is it OK for the USA and Israel to stockpile enough nukes to destroy the earth many times over, but when any
other nation has even one, it is a totally unacceptable assault on world peace?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Inconsistent Reaction to War Crimes

Why do Americans think it is perfectly OK for them to attack other countries who did not attack them first, but
it is a hanging offence if anyone else does it?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Increase Military Spending?

Mitt Romney wants to increase military spending by $2 trillion, even though he
would have to borrow the money from China. The USA already spends almost as a much money on the military as the
rest of the world combined. Two major wars are winding down. You’d think there would be savings from that.
Just what country is Mitt so afraid of? What country could attack the USA and not be defeated by the USA with both
hands behind its back? The additional debt would harm the USA for every year to come. Today, conflicts are mainly
fought financially. Ironically, Mitt’s plan would weaken the USA.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Incredible Propaganda

Richard Holbrooke, US ambassador to Afghanistan, claims only 9% of Afghans support the
Taliban. This is not credible. How on earth could 9% of Afghans defeat the remaining
91% of them, the USA (which has the biggest military on earth spending billions every
month on the Afghan invasion, with the most advanced military technology on earth, bloody-minded enough to use
banned weapons and torture on a routine basis), Britain, Canada…?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Inefficient Terrorists

Terrorists could cause much more damage if they did not kill themselves in the process. They could attack week
after week. From the terrorist’s point of view, his suicide is the central part of the act. Killing others in
the process is just a fuck you to the world, or a way to impress fellow terrorists, or
a way to raise money for the family. As a fuck you it is lame, inept gesture. It kills
only innocent people. It would make more sense, for example to attack the Cincinnati Republican convention. The
terrorists they could eliminate fat cats, people who force Christianity on Muslims, climate change deniers and
oppressors of the poor while hitting relatively few innocent bystanders.

If we focussed more on discouraging suicide than the damage of terrorism, we might be more effective.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Inflated US Military Budget

The United States spends more on its military than all other countries in the world put together. Polls tell us
Americans believe this money is well spent, necessary to prevent invasion. They fail no notice that almost no
countries are ever invaded, not even ones without militaries like Costa Rica. The country most likely to invade
others is the United States itself. This suggests the purpose of the US military is not defence, but planetary
hegemony.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Inside/Outside View

Inside Nazi Germany, had you asked anyone, they would have assured you that Hitler was the best thing since
sliced bread. Outside, you would have heard more of the dark side. History, judges him as one of the worst fiends
of all time. In like manner, inside the USA the Iraq war is a noble enterprise to spread democracy and defend
freedom (albeit whose freedom is a bit vague). Outside, people feel freer to be less enthusiastic. History will
condemn what America did with much the same vigour as it now condemns the holocaust.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Instilling Entitlement

What on earth gets into people that they think they have divine right to attack other nations unprovoked to
steal their resources? How do they manage to feel so darn self-righteous about killing kids, torturing people,
burning them alive — people who never did them any harm? Rome, Britain, Germany, Japan, Italy, Russia,
America, Canada… They all did it.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

International Law

To me this is utterly obvious. It also international law. Other people are not allowed to invade my country. If
they do, I am fully justified in killing them. Conversely, I am not allowed to invade other people’s country.
If I do, they are fully justified in killing me. Oddly, many people find this law controversial. They think there
should be an exception for Americans.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

International Law

The way international law works, any country can try any war criminal no matter what country that war criminal
is a citizen of or where the alleged crimes were committed. It is only a matter of time until some country tries
Cheney, Bush-43 or one of his henchmen. I enjoy the thought of this fate giving them ulcers.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

International Scofflaws

Like Nazis and Israelis, Americans believe they are exempt from International Law. They believe the law
forbidding preemptive attacks doesn’t apply to them.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Intimidation

The key thing to understand about bullies is that they don’t have all that much power, but they are
ruthless at intimidation. If one subject refuses to acquiesce, the bully can bring 100%
of his might to bear on reprisals. However, if ten people simultaneously rebel, the bully has only 10% of his might to bear on each troublemaker and the bully becomes laughable. Groups such as the
NRA (National Rifle Association)
and AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee)
use classic bully tactics. Politicians fear them because of the way they single out any candidate who is not
sufficiently submissive. However, a unified party as a whole has nothing to fear from them. Politicians don’t
seem to realise that.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Introducing Democracy, Cough

You can look on the Afghan war either as an American attempt to stage a coup, or as a simple invasion and
installation of an interim dictatorship. What you cannot do is pretend the war has anything at all to do with
introducing democracy. The very fact Afghanistan, a country 1/10 the size of the USA, has
fought America to a stalemate, indicates the vast majority of the Afghans oppose the American occupation and the
Karzai provisional government. If even 30% of the Afghans supported the invasion, the
Americans would have prevailed years ago. Americans are behaving in an anti-democratic way, trying to force the
highly unpopular, extremely corrupt Karzai government down the throats of the Afghans. Even the US State Department
admits Karzai was an unfortunate choice.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Invading Canada

What would you think if America invaded Canada because a suspected terrorist gang hung out there? What if it
overturned the government and installed the world’s biggest drug lord as leader? What if it occupied Canada
for 15 years? What if it routinely tortured Canadian citizens. What if it killed over a million
Canadian civilians, mostly children? That’s what America did to Afghanistan. If the treatment of Afghanistan
appears acceptable to you, it is because you are more of a bigot about people from Afghanistan than Canada.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Is Invasion Legal?

If you ask a Canadian or an American Was Hitler’s invasion of Poland legal?,
a history buff might respond: Participating in an aggressive[first strike] war, is a capital[death
penalty] war crime. That’s why we tried and hanged the Nazi leaders at the end of
WWII
including the bureaucrats who issued orders but did not kill anyone personally. We even went after Joseph Goebbels,
the minister of propaganda, but the coward killed himself before we could hang him. They did lots of other terrible
stuff, but we nailed them all with the exact same charge, aiding and abetting an aggressive war.
Or they might say: It might not have been legal, but it certainly was wrong.
However, if you ask them: Was it legal for Canada and America to invade Afghanistan?
they will answer: Why not?
You point out: The Afghan invasion too was an aggressive war. We attacked them first, remember?
It was illegal for Hitler, but OK for us? Really?
They might respond: They had it coming. They attacked us on 9/11.
You correct them: Not even Bush claimed the Taliban had anything to do with 9/11. He blamed Osama bin Laden, a Saudi and Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. He did not implicate even a
single Afghan citizen in any way. You are conflating the Taliban and Al Qaeda just because they are both Muslims.
They are not even both Arab.
They respond Of course, It’s legal if we do it. We
attack others for damn good reasons! We’re not like those damn Muslim ragheads who kill you for no reason at
all!
You query: Tell me again. Why did Bush attack Afghanistan?
They reply: Because the Taliban refused to catch bin Laden and hand him over for trial.
Americans don’t need no steekin’ extradition hearing or extradition
treaty.
You observe: Yeah, but that was a pretty unreasonable demand. It took Bush and Obama
9 years, 6 months and 26 days
between them to nail bin Laden after you guys had occupied Afghanistan.
They ask: So who’s gonna prosecute us?
You explain: Granted so long as the USA is the #1 superpower, it will
shield American and Canadian citizens from prosecution in the World Court, but how long can you count on that? And
granted, if you are just a small fish, no one would bother coming after you, unless, of course, you were one the
guys who went overboard on torture and rape. Whether waging aggressive war is legal has nothing to do with the
probability of escaping prosecution for it. That is like claiming bank robbing is legal just because you have the
crown prosecutor in your pocket and you will likely never go to jail yourself for robbing banks.
They typically terminate the argument with a cogent ad hominem: Commie traitor! I hope you die
of AIDS
you fucking fag!

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Invention of Warfare

There is no evidence for human warfare prior to 12,000 years ago, when agriculture was
invented.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Iran Needs Nukes

Of course, Iran is seeking nuclear weapons! Why? Bush, in his axis of evil speech, promised America would
annihilate Iran. Obama has not rescinded that threat. Iraq and Afghanistan fell to American invasion. North Korea
did not. That is because North Korea has nukes and Iraq and Afghanistan did not. So naturally Iran sees nukes as
necessary for its survival. Further, Iran’s arch enemy Israel has nukes. It needs a deterrent to Israel as
well. If you want others to refrain from acquiring nukes, you must get rid of your own.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Iranian Bones To Pick With America

Americans believe Iranians have an irrational hatred for Americans. Americans have conveniently forgotten two
things they did to Iran:

In 1953, during the Eisenhower administration, the USA deposed the government of
popular Prime Minister, Mohammed Massadegh and imposed one of the most brutal dictators in history, Mohammad Reza
Shah Pahlavi.

On 1988-07-03, during the Reagan administration, the USS Vincennes entered Iranian
water without permission then shot down Iranian Air Flight 655 killing all 290 passengers and crew aboard,
including 66 children.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Iraq Attacked the USA?

One of the most bizarre excuses for the Iraq war that Americans give me is that they are defending their freedom
from attack by Iraq. What attack? 9/11? Even president Bush on 2003-09-17, said that a Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. Bush
said bin Laden, a Saudi and a small band of Saudi Al-Qaeda was responsible. Everyone saw the USA bomb the
residential sections of Baghdad live on CNN
on 2003-03-20, the opening day of the war, not the reverse. There was no
WMD
attack. There were not even any WMDs. Perhaps Americans are offended that
Iraqis attacked them when the US military illegally invaded their country and started plundering it. That is
defence, not attack. What American freedom did Iraqis interfere with — the American divine right to steal?
The war was not even about liberating Iraqis from Saddam since Saddam offered to surrender before the war and was
deposed the instant the war started. If regime change were truly what the war were about, the war should have ended
as soon as Saddam was captured on 2003-12-13 ( 12 years and 11 months
ago). It raged on even more fiercely, without even a hiccup, indicating there was something else fueling it. Hint
what does Iraq have billions of barrels of that the USA thinks it desperately needs, needs badly enough to kill and
torture children for? War is about stealing other people’s resources. The rest is patriotic bullshit to sell
them to gullible people.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Iraq War Lasted Suspiciously Long

If the true purpose of the Iraq war were to depose Saddam Hussein, then it should have ended even before it
started on 2003-03-19 when Saddam offered to surrender. If not then, it should have ended
a few days after the invasion on 2003-03-22 when he was deposed. If not then, the
occupation should have ended was Saddam was captured on 2003-12-24. It didn’t.
Obama announced the war was winding down on the same day all of Iraq’s oil resources were auctioned off to
American and European oil companies. What does that tell you about the real purpose of the war?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Iraq Was Not About Saddam

If the Iraq war were truly about taking out Saddam and installing democracy, the US would have withdrawn as soon
as Saddam was toppled, Saddam was captured or the first election. The war rolled on through all three events
without so much as a hiccup.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Iraqis Do Not Enjoy Being Occupied

Propaganda has been ceaselessly telling us that the majority of Iraqis support the American invasion. I know
this cannot be true. How?

On the day the USA invaded, I watched the invasion live on CNN
with some Iraqi expatriates, crying their eyes out at seeing their Baghdad neighbourhoods and neighbours back
home bombed. Bush had betrayed them they wailed. They expected liberation not butchery.

Except for Austria, I have never heard of an invasion where the people welcomed occupation especially when it
dragged on and on and on.

The USA, in military and financial terms, utterly dwarfs the Iraq opposition, but the resistance fought them
to a stalemate. That could only be possible if the majority of the Iraqis supported the resistance.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Irrational Revenge

Terrorists (possibly false flag or with inside help) killed 3500 Americans and
destroyed two buildings and damaged one other. The Americans, in a flurry of revenge illegally and irrationally
attacked two countries that had nothing to do with the attack. Americans have bombed Afghanistan and Iraq to rubble
and killed millions of people and routinely tortured POWs. Yet they imagine these
acts do not rate even one American civilian death in revenge? Why do Americans think everyone else is so much freer
of the desire for revenge than they are? Why don’t they notice their own actions are far more outrageously
malevolent than even 9/11 was?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Irrelevant to Defence

It has taken 74 years
for Americans to reflect on how much of the bombing in WWII
had a military purpose. Much of the bombing intended only emotional terrorising civilians. It did not help reduce
Germany or Japan’s ability to wage war. How many more decades will it take for Americans to admit their wars
in Viet Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq were motivated largely by racist and religious hatred and corporate greed,
certainly nothing at all to do with defending America.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

ISIS

Destroying ancient artifacts is an inexcusable act of vandalism. It steals a record of our human history from
everyone on earth. It has no function in weakening ISIS’s
enemies. It is just spite. It is vandalism on such a massive scale, it deserves the death penalty.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

ISIS is Crazy

I don’t just mean that ISIS’s
behaviour is bizarre, it is suicidal. They want to lose and be destroyed. Consider that
Hitler’s undoing was fighting a war on both the eastern and western fronts simultaneously.
ISIS
is running around picking fights with the most powerful nations on earth, most recently Japan.
ISIS has done it in such a way as to
utterly infuriate the entire populace. Fighting even one of these powers would have been difficult, but fighting
them all guarantees ISIS’s elimination.

They may have swallowed the Islamic promise of paradise after death literally and they are eager to die soon,
even more eager than they are to strike revenge at the west. It a collective suicide by cop. It is a mass religious
delusion, a death cult, Christianity/Islam taken to its logical conclusion. They are ignoring the fact the
Qur’an forbids suicide. They imagine through some loophole what they are doing does not count as
suicide.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

ISIS Jerking Our Chain

Consider what would happen if ISIS
simply shot a western captive without taking them into custody? What would happen if they threw the captive into a
prison? Nothing at all would happen. It would not make the news. It would not attract the attention of world
leaders. ISIS
is getting great enjoyment watching us react in panic.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

ISIS Phobia

I have to laugh at the Canadian media over-reaction to the threat of
ISIS. They behave like a cat cowering
in terror at a hamster. They quake in terror at, hold it, John McGuire’s slick
video. They give front page hype to the fact ISIS
was raising the astronomical sum of $3 million a day. They failed to put this in
perspective by reminding readers that Canada spends $619 million a day on its
military and the USA spends $1.8billion a day on its military.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

ISIS Popularity

Why is ISIS
popular despite being so barbaric? The media completely ignore that question. They just like to pretend it is
because middle easterners are inherently wicked, crazed by the

ISIS Popularity

Why is ISIS
popular despite being so barbaric? The media completely ignore that question. They just like to pretend it is
because middle easterners are inherently wicked, crazed by the wrong religion, ignoring the fact Islam leads the
vast majority of the world’s Muslims to lead peaceful lives.

Hint: Canada, Britain and the US illegally invaded middle eastern countries in first strike aggressive wars. They tortured people. They killed children. They used white phosphorus, cluster
bombs, DU
and land mines. To middle easterners, we are as evil as Nazis. They see ISIS
’s atrocities to combat us as morally justified. We dropped an atomic bomb on Japanese civilians when we were
similarly convinced the Japanese were subhuman. What we did is even more barbaric than
ISIS’s beheadings.

The ISIS mess is really just a matter of
reaping what we sowed.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The ISIS Problem

There are two halves to the problem:

ISISis seeking revenge for what the
West has done to the middle East: bombing, killing children, using banned weapons, torture, selling off their oil
to the West’s corporations.

Religious fundamentalism.

The solution to the first is to bend over backwards to treat the people of the middle east fairly. Even as it
is, they will not forgive us for centuries, if that.

The solution to the second is to fight superstition generally. We can’t very well encourage some
irrational religious sects and while eliminating others. We have to undermine all superstition and religion.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

ISIS Propaganda

ISIS propaganda claims the USA wants to kill all the world’s Muslims. That is not true. American rednecks
would like to, but the administration has no interest in eliminating Muslims unless they are sitting on critical
natural resources or threaten Israel.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

ISIS Recruitment

I read hundreds of articles handwringing about westerners going to fight against Canada, the USA and Britain in
the middle east.

The elephant in the room is why?

The answer is so obvious, and so embarrassing to Mr. Harper and the like.

We illegally attacked Afghanistan and occupied them for over a decade. We killed them and tortured them for no
apparent reason. We pretended they were attacking us. This was preposterous. The only weapons they had were
kitchen-made IEDs. They had no means to attack us.
Further, there were no attacks.

The young people heading off to Syria are idealists, not dupes. They are ashamed of how their
country has behaved and how it refuses to acknowledge its behaviour.

The solution is to make amends to Afghanistan and to admit our wrongs, much like an AA 12-step
program.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

It Is Not Extreme to Defend One’s Country

Americans call the Taliban extremists. What is extreme about fighting to end an
occupation that has dragged on for 15 years and 2 months
? If someone invaded and occupied your country, surely you would feel no compulsion about killing the invaders and
the collaborators. Do you consider yourself an extremist?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

It Were Done To You

Imagine the Russians developed some ultra-advanced military technology and successfully invaded and occupied the
USA. Why did they do it? The Russians said they had to take out a rogue American leader who was abusing the rights
of non-Christians and who was stockpiling nukes, preparing for a surprise nuclear attack. American were fairly sure
it had something to do with food since the Russians auctioned off all American farms and ranches to Russian
corporations and their friends. They set up checkpoints where they shouted at people in Russian and shot them if
they did not stop, or go where they wanted them too. To make matters worse, they used Russian hand signals, where
the stop signal to Americans meant come over here. Sometimes the Russians would set up
two checkpoints back-to-back. They would wave a car-full of Americans through. The Americans often did not notice
it was actually two checkpoints and drove through, presuming they had been cleared. This mistake called for
immediate execution of all the car occupants by machine gun. The Russians were terrified of the American resistance
they called the insurgents, since they considered themselves the new legitimate
government of the USA. They spent most of their time driving about in convoys. The drivers were ordered never to
stop for any reason. If an American child got in the way, they ran over her. If a car got in the way, they shot the
driver. They were terrified of ambush if they even slowed down a little.

They had some rather impolite racist terms they used for all Americans. They considered the lives of Americans
completely without value. They believed they had the right to kill any American, even a child, an elderly person, a
woman, or someone proven unarmed, simply on the grounds that Americans sometimes resisted the invasion. The
Russians considered this merely pre-emptive self defence. They would routinely round up random Americans and
torture them. They justified this again on the grounds of self defence. The people they tortured might know
something about planned attacks. Even though this practice almost never produced useful information, they continued
it, mainly because they hated their victims.

Obviously, the Russian behaviour is illegal, but is it honourable? Most Americans think it is because they
excuse themselves from doing the exact same thing in their invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Jesus’s Outrage

I this Jesus would be outraged to discover the Victoria Cross and Navy Cross given is his name for mass
murder.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Jew Against Jew

I was distressed to learn that after WWII, the Jews who suffered in the
concentration camps ostracised those Jews who had managed to avoid them.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Jewish War Criminals

It is a capital war crime to aid and abet the invasion or occupation of a foreign country in an aggressive war, (a war in which your side attacks first unprovoked.) That makes every Jew in Israel a
capital criminal. It is highly unlikely they will ever be tried, much less executed, but they would be if the same
law applied to hang all the Nazi at the end of WWII
were applied to the Jews in Israel too. If Jews were aware of that, they might have a tad more humility about their
superiority over the Palestinians.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

John Lennon

It is quite amazing how hateful Americans were to John Lennon. All he did was sing a song Give Peace A
Chance. They burned his records. They accused him of being insane. Why were so many people so opposed to
peace and non-violence? They all gave lip service to these values in the context of the teachings of Jesus. What a
toxic society!

Journalists Behind Enemy Lines

In WWII, no journalist would dream of going behind enemy
lines and expecting to live to tell the tale. Yet American, British and Canadian journalists act offended when they
are not welcomed with open arms in Afghanistan and Iraq. They seem oblivious to the fact coalition of the coerced
have killed millions of civilians, mostly kids, tortured routinely and used banned weapons.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Just Following Orders

At the end of WWII
Americans laughed derisively at Nazi War criminals who pleaded, I was just following orders. I
would have been shot if I disobeyed. The Americans hanged them anyway. Nuremberg settled the matter that
soldiers are personally responsible for the crimes they commit, period. How different the attitude to the American
war criminals in Afghanistan and Iraq. No matter what atrocities or war crimes they openly committed, to modern day
Americans, they are still heroes, with zero personal responsibility for their crimes. To my eyes, the American
soldiers have far less excuse than the hanged Nazis. American soldiers were not drafted, they chose to kill.
American soldiers would not be shot for refusing to commit war crimes, merely jailed. They were far better informed
that what they were doing was illegal than were the Nazis. Germany had not yet even signed a treaty outlawing
aggressive (first strike) war back then.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Just Following Orders

It is odd that Americans will have none of the Nazi excuse I was just following
orders, from men who would have been shot had they refused to obey, but they let off the hook completely US
soldiers who committed war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, voluntarily, on the ground only leaders
are responsible for who is killed. Soldiers just follow orders. They can’s see the hypocrisy, even when you
point it out to them.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Just Following ze Orders

Americans, especially enlistees, believe that soldiers bear no responsibility. The responsibility lies entirely
with the leaders. The soldier’s job is just to follow orders and kill whom they are told to. Yet at the end
of WWII, Americans excoriated the Nazi soldiers when they excused themselves saying
I was just following orders. The Nazis had an excuse that no American has. Had they not
killed, they would have been killed. In contrast, American soldiers choose to enlist and kill, maim, torture and
rape innocent people.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Just Like the Nazis

If the Nazis had won WWII, the post-war German politicians would have argued
for moving forward and avoiding a witchhunt because too
many powerful people were involved in the genocide of the Jews, just as today American politicians argue for
moving forward and avoiding a witchhunt because so many
Americans were involved in torture and other war crimes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Just War

Is a war just? Pretty much everyone agrees any defensive war is just. Offensive wars
usually start out highly popular, at least within the aggressive country and gradually become considered unjust.
Perhaps a century later, the war dwindles to a historical embarrassment. If you want to be forward thinking, you
might as well consider all aggressive (first strike) wars unjust, even when your own country is the
perpetrator.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Justification for Killing

These is only one valid reason for killing someone — when there is no other way to prevent him from
killing people. I doubt very many of the people the Americans and Canadians killed in Afghanistan or Iraq met that
criterion. Self-defence would not apply in that situation since the Americans and Canadians invaded illegally. It
would be like a home invader claiming self defence.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Justification for Maiming

When I see casualties of war, particularly the bystanders and the kids hideously burned, maimed or blown to a
Cuisinart purée, I ask what possible justification could there be for such cruelty? If someone says
freedom, I demand to know just whose freedom was enhanced and the freedom to do what? In what way,
specifically, does that particular atrocity enhance anyone’s freedom? How could this hypothetical enhanced
freedom possibly justify forcing innocents to sacrifice their ultimate freedom — the freedom to live?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Justifications for Torture

Here are four of the reasons Americans give for torturing people and killing children:

Revenge for 9-11, even though George Bush himself said that neither Iraq nor the Taliban had anything to do
with 9-11. He said the culprit was Osama bin Laden, a Saudi, living in Pakistan.

Because if countries were allowed to run their economic systems in any way other than corporate capitalism,
their success might encourage others to emulate them, e.g. Grenada, Nicaragua, Chile, Iran… (Some
confidence in the American system!)

Because, evil doers might someday acquire nuclear weapons. However, it is perfectly ok for the USA, Russia,
China, Britain, France, India, Pakistan and Israel to maintain sufficient arsenals to wipe out life on earth many
times over and to threaten to use these weapons if they don’t get their way. In the 2002-01-19SOTU
speech, the USA announced their intention to annihilate Iran, Iraq and North Korea, then wondered why the
Iranians and North Koreans sought a nuclear deterrent to escape the fate of Iraq. Israel announced its plans to
annihilate Iran, then complained when the Iranians said that Israel was an illegitimate state with no right to
exist (which is true according to international law).

Because the countries they invade have crucial natural resources such as oil, tin, lithium, coltan…
that they need for their national security.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Justifications for Wars

When you hear the justification for wars, it always seems that the costs far outweigh any potential benefits.
That because the leaders lie about the purpose of the war. It is actually for economic benefit, i.e. stealing
natural resources. It is a type of gambling. The leaders bet the country hoping to take the natural resources of
another.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Justified Murder

When is murder justified? Perhaps to defend the planet from ecological destruction, to defend one’s
homeland from invasion, or to prevent extinction, but surely not for trivial motives like hegemony, oil and
sadistic entertainment, the motives for most of the killing.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Justified War

When is war justified?

To defend a democratically elected government from rebellion.

To depose a dictatorship.

To defend your democratically elected country against invasion.

It is not justified when:

The country you attack has oil and you would rather not pay full price for it.

The country you attack has lithium and you would rather not pay full price for it.

The country you attack has elected a different style of democratic government from you and you fear it may
prove more popular.

The attack is based on a land claim prior to 1947, particularly one thousands of
years old.

Because you think some other country might attack you in future.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Justifying Ripping Children to Pieces

I am horrified at Americans who justify ripping children to pieces with explosives, and burning them to death
with white phosphorus because of 9/11.

Obviously, these children had nothing to do with 9/11. Many were not even
born.

President Bush said their countries, Iraq and Afghanistan, had nothing to do with it.

The perpetrator, according to President Bush, is bin Laden, a Saudi. Bush gave up chasing him long ago.

Most of the perpetrators of 9/11 are dead. They allegedly committed suicide in the
attack. Killing random children is an insane way to seek revenge on those still alive. It makes so more sense
that killing random Muslim American children.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Justifying Violence

CBCRadio On the Coast
interviewed a spokesman for the Canadian military. The spokesman admitted Canada had done some terrible things in
Afghanistan, including torture, (though he did not go so far as to admitting attacking unprovoked is a capital war
crime). He asserted it was morally indefensible for any party to use any form of terrorism or violence to try to
deter Canada. They must constrain themselves to non-violent protest. This makes no sense. Either violence is a
legit way to persuade others or it is not. If Canada thinks it is ok to murder kids to persuade Afghans then surely
it is ok for others to murder Canadian soldiers (or kids) to dissuade them. His childish logic goes something like
this. I like killing people, therefore it is morally OK when I do it. I don’t like other
people trying to kill me. Therefore, when others do it, it is morally unjustified.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Karma Please

It would be wonderful if there were such a thing as karma. Then I could relax knowing that George W. Bush, Dick
Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Fred Phelps, David Bahati, Brit Hume, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity,
Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh… would experience the same suffering they had meted out to innocent people.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Karzai the Bastard

The USA and NATO
have been pounding a way for 15 years and 2 months
at Afghanistan spending hundreds of billions of dollars and have barely made a dent in defeating the Taliban
resistance. Now the US Military tells us, that after the USA and NATO
leave, Karzai, on a billion euro a year allowance, will either defeat the Taliban or force them to the bargaining
table. What utter BS! That is not even wishful thinking. That is a bald faced lie. Karzai, collaborator and
betrayer of his country, will most likely be strung up by the testicles, a fitting end to the crookedest politician
on earth and its biggest drug dealer. If he is smart, he will have his private jet idling, reading to evacuate to a
haven for drug lords where he can live the remainder of his life in unimaginable luxury.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Kickback Trillions

The US military is so corrupt it is preparing to bilk the taxpayers out of trillions for a new fleet of
submarines to fight the Russians who no longer make subs. The only reason to do this is to turn a firehose of money
on kick-back offering defence contractors.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Kill Anyone But the Target

Oddly, Obama is willing to kill anyone except Gadafi in attempting to topple his regime.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Kill a Kid For Cheap Gas

Why do Americans put up with their troops using banned weapons, torturing people, killing children etc? They
imagine if they do, they will be rewarded with cheaper gasoline.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Killed Committing a Crime

When a criminal gets himself killed in the process of committing a crime, the nation hoots at him on late night
TV, but when an American soldier gets himself killed in an illegal aggressive war, he is
honoured on TV as a hero, even though the criminal may have committed only burglary where the soldier committed
murder, rape and capital war crimes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Killers Demanding Respect

It is bad enough that soldiers kill men, women and children who had absolutely nothing to do with attacking
their country, but they also demand to be treated as better that other people with special privilege and respect
even though they are moral and intellectual inferiors.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Killers Nearby

Everyone I know would go to great lengths to avoid killing someone. However, there is another class of person
who seeks opportunities to murder others. These include criminals, soldiers, generals and high level politicians.
They enjoy killing. They offer the most feeble and vague of excuses for doing it. Killing is an incredibly
presumptuous thing to do. It says my pleasure in killing trumps your right to enjoy the rest
of your existence. I am willing to completely vaporise all your potential for a few moments of my personal
pleasure. Such people are infinitely self-centred and infinitely conceited. It is odd that we tolerate these
people in society and treat them as if they were ordinary humans.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Killing by Accident

If somebody drives drunk and hits a pedestrian, it is really an accident? If a carload
of drunks drive along the street firing randomly at pedestrians (as happened to me three times in Portland) and
kill one, was it is accident even if they were not aiming at particular pedestrians? Terrorists, when they set off
a bomb in a market, don’t take moral responsibility. They tell themselves the people who were killed should
have paid attention to the warning leaflets and stayed away from the market. Every week on so the Americans admit
to accidentally killing a couple of dozen civilians or Pakistani troops. Well over a
million civilians have been killed accidentally When Americans level a city with bombs
like Baghdad or Fallujah, they know the buildings are cram full of civilians, half of them below age 15. They knew they are killing kids, but they still refuse to take moral responsibility. They claim it
is an accident because their minds they were not targeting specific children, so the
ones killed were accidents If you don’t take solid precautions to a avoid deaths
as a side effect of your actions, you have no right to call those deaths accidents.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Killing Children

The US military is having trouble with soldiers, especially young married ones, refusing to kill children when
ordered to in the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations. One of the research think tanks has come up with what amounts
to an outsized version of the successful
Tomcat Rat Killer that lets you kill rats without ever seeing them or knowing the mechanism by which they were
dispatched. The child killing trap is baited with candy instead of peanut butter, almost irresistible to children
living on a calorie deprived diet.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

I am pulling your leg. This is not literally true, but the military uses all manner of long range
weapons, such as bombers, rockets, high powered rifles, flame throwers, napalm, white phosphorus,… that let
soldiers kill their victims without ever seeing their faces.

Killing Civilians

In WWII
the resistance attacked the occupying Nazis with bombs in often suicidal attacks. In 2012-08 the Taliban made suicide attacks against ordinary Afghan citizens. What on earth are they
thinking? I could understand them attacking the occupying Americans, or Afghan collaborators, but why ordinary
citizens? This certainly won’t win them any hearts and minds. It won’ punish the Americans or make them
leave any sooner. It almost as if they are angry and frustrated, so take it out on the easiest victims. Maybe they
see all Afghans but themselves as active collaborators.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Killing Civilians

The modern theory of warfare (World War II on) is if somebody shoots at you, they are likely well-trained and
hard to kill. It is safer and easier to leave them alone. Instead you should kill somebody else who is much easier
to kill, e.g. women, children and elderly. The theory is, those that shot at you will be so hurt by what you did,
they will stop shooting at you. This, of course, does not work, as the endless wars in Palestine, Afghanistan and
Iraq attest. Why doesn’t it work? One reason is soldiers are largely nasty selfish sadists who don’t
give an shit about anyone but themselves. They just like killing and torturing people for any excuse. They might
even vicariously get off on the deaths of the women, children and elderly, as is the custom of serial killers. The
other reason is one of the women you kill might be a beloved wife or mother. Your opponent might then vow revenge
even if it means a suicide attack. If you think about it, this strategy is as nutty as Cleavon Little, as Sheriff
Bart, taking himself hostage in Blazing Saddles.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Killing Invaders Is Not Wicked

Americans think the Taliban are evil for wanting control of their country back, for fighting to evict the
American occupation and for wanting America to fail all over the planet. Would you not want invaders of your
country thrown out and to fall on their faces? What’s so terrible about that?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Killing to Save Lives?

How come almost nobody notices the inconsistency when a general excuses his slaughter of innocent civilians by
claiming he did it to save the lives of innocent civilians?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Killing Terrorists

If in the process of apprehending a terrorist, he is killed, everything he knows about the activities of other
terrorists dies with him. In the grand scheme of things, this information is probably far more important than that
single terrorist. However, there is a testosterone-cowboy lynch-em mentality in the military and the police that
does’nt seem to understand this. Lately, more often than not, they botch the job and kill the suspect.
Perhaps they should take a page from people who manage to capture bears, elephants, tigers and poisonous
snakes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Killing With Trial Is Not Justice

Americans universally claimed the killing of bin Laden was triumph of justice. That
is not justice, that is vigilantism. Justice would be an open trial, followed by execution after conviction. By
preferring vengeance over justice, Americans lost big time.

We will never find out how/if bin Laden engineered 9/11 and who was complicit.

bin Laden will become a martyr rather that a criminal with his deeds explored in open court.

All bin Laden’s secrets about the Al Qaeda went with him to the grave.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Killing Without Reason

Today’s soldiers have absolutely no interest in who or why they are killing. They consider that somebody
else’s concern. In other words, they are not killing for a reason, they are killing because they like killing
or they enjoy being ordered to kill. In either case, I consider that pathological, not heroic. I am not about to
mourn the death of such a psychopath or even pay the most basic respects. To me, it would be like weeping over the
execution of someone on death row for a brutal multiple murder.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Killing without Reason

What would you think of someone who signed a contract with the Mafia to kill anyone man, woman or child, simply
on being ordered to, without any explanation? What would you think of someone who enlisted in Hitler’s army
and signed such a contract? What would you think of someone who enlisted in the US Army and signed such a contract
knowing the USA was involved in multiple illegal wars where it had attacked first nations that were no threat to
it, but whose resources it wanted.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Kinky Soldiers

The kinkiest think I have ever heard of is young men shaving off their hair and becoming willing slaves to
abusive old men who order them to kill children and torture people, i.e. join the US military.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Know Your Enemy

The classic advice in war is to know your enemy, to get to know how he thinks in precise and
accurate detail. However, I have found the people in the USA and Canada who are at war against the Muslim world,
prefer to believe inaccurate caricatures instead. They have absolutely no interest in what motivates those they
slaughter, any more than a rancher is interested in what motivates the cattle he butchers.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Kohlberg Morality Levels

Soldiers are stuck at level 1 or 2 of Lawrence Kohlberg’s levels
of moral development.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Lack of Curiosity

Most Americans accept the official story that Muslim suicide bombers attacked on 9/11.
Yet no Americans have the tiniest bit of curiosity about what motivated them to sacrifice their lives in such an
attack. Even if Americans think the motive was a naïve
bid to get laid in the afterlife, why would the attackers think Allah would reward such violence?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Lack of Vigilantes

Given how many soldiers there are in the USA who have brazenly committed a capital war crime and go
unprosecuted, it is astounding how rarely vigilantes assassinate them. Gandhi and Martin Luther King have been
successful in convincing the people who find these war crimes appalling that such vigilante action would only make
matters worse.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Last King of Scotland

Many people are outraged at my disdain for soldiers and my assertion they are motivated by sadism and they lie
convincingly about their motives. My contention will seem obvious if you watch the movie The Last King of
Scotland. The events it describes are historic fact.

Laughable Americans

Americans have embarked on a campaign to kill Al Qaeda by making them die of derisive laughter. For example Ron
Paul refused to deny an allegation he kidnapped a woman, forced her to take hits on bong and worship the god
Aquabuddha. Ron Boehner announced by reducing taxes (the money the people pay to the government), government
revenues will increase, even though these voodoo economics have been tried before and has never worked. Military
spokesmen announce that despite spending $1 trillion on invading and occupying
Afghanistan and Iraq they have hardly killed anyone.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Law in War

I am gobsmacked that Americans see absolutely nothing wrong with using law to prosecute those who try to evict
them from their illegal invasions, but almost never prosecute fellow Americans for murdering or raping men, women
or children in those occupied countries no matter what the circumstances. Surely, in law, it is legal to kill an
invader and illegal to participate in an aggressive war. Americans see it the other way around. It does not dawn on
them that this view is mad. The attitude is so prevalent that peer pressure makes it seem rational.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Legal Right to Kill Americans

The people of Afghanistan and Iraq have the moral and legal right to kill American soldiers, anywhere on the
planet because America attacked their countries unprovoked and continue to occupy their countries. Given that
Americans have butchered so many children, the people of Afghanistan and Iraq also have the natural right, though
not the legal or moral right, to butcher American children anywhere on the planet. We should all be thankful they
have refrained from exercising that right.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Legitimate War

I can think of one legitimate reason for attacking and obliterating a country — if it refuses to reign in
its greenhouse gas emissions. It is effectively sabotaging the life support system of spaceship earth.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Lemming March

Throughout history, there have always been a few people who noticed that weapons were inevitably evolving more
and more lethality. The end point of this escalation is the extinction of the human race. These people have so far
been unable to persuade the general population to forgo this lemming march to mass suicide. Most people refuse to
look at the big picture. They see only the immediate need for a better weapon to defend
or conquer.

P.S. Lemmings don’t actually march to die in the sea.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Lessons of Nuremberg

Those soldiers who forget the lessons of Nuremberg are condemned to repeat them, namely:

It is illegal to attack another nation unprovoked.

Being ordered to is no excuse for committing an illegal act.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Let the Dead Bury the Dead

Everyone involved in WWI
is dead and nearly everyone involved in WWII
is dead too. Surely it is time to stop these public displays of grief and anger about slights to people long dead
by people long dead. It is like obsessing over the crimes of Genghis Khan.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Lies Of War

Because the governments of Canada and the USA lied to us so brazenly about the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq,
I am pretty sure they are lying again about ISIS. The lies
are not so transparent this time, so I don’t know what they are up to.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Life Under Hitler

People presume that if Hitler had prevailed we would still be living today under the worst tyranny mankind has
ever seen. Consider how many tyrants have fallen or their regimes have fallen with their deaths: Saddam Hussein,
Idi Amin, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Hasni Mubarek, Peron, Pinochet, Franco, Mussolini, Nicolae Ceausescu, Zine El
Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia…

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Like Living In Nazi Germany

I feel like a German living under the Nazis, trying to convince my nation that Germany’s attacks on other
nations were wrong. I am a voice crying in the wilderness. Remembrance Day is wrong. Morally
wrong for the exact same reasons those who eulogise the Nazis are wrong. I have posted an
essay
to explain why.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Lincoln’ Genocide

Before he was president, Abraham Lincoln fought in the genocidal Indian wars whose aim was to eliminate the
native population and to hand their lands over to white settlers.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Logic of Suicide Missions

Americans are often puzzled why anyone would mount a suicide attack against Americans. In
WWI
and WWII
American mounted all kinds of suicide missions, though they were not called that. They were missions with perhaps
only a 1% chance of returning alive. Why did Americans do that?

They believed by risking/sacrificing their lives they would save many of their comrades.

They believed the enemy were so evil, it was worth sacrificing their own life to take out one or more of
them.

They saw demonstrating such reckless bravery as bestowing great honour.

I think the exact same motivations would apply to suicide attacks on Americans.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Long Remembered War

It’s been 77 years
since the Nazis invaded Poland. It does not look as though we are going to forget about it any time soon. So how
long do you think the Afghans and Iraqis will remember what the Americans did to them, dousing them in white
phosphorus, burning them to death with napalm, hunting their children like rats, poisoning them with
DU, blowing the limbs off their children with cluster bombs disguised as food packets,
depriving them of water in the desert sun, starving them to death, blowing up their hospitals, electric plants and
water sanitation facilities, levelling their cities, spitting on their religion and the endless indignities of
military occupation.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Long Standing Resentment

The ancestors of the victims of Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan are still resentful about it to this day.
Modern day leaders of the USA, Russia and Israel should remember the consequences when they imagine brutality is
the best policy.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Look Before You Leap

Given the trouble countries inevitably get into when they leap into optional wars, given how difficult it is to
wind down and withdraw from a war, given how wars always last longer than planned, given how casualties are always
worse that expected, given how the main victims of war are children and civilians, given that the enemy evolves
ever more lethal tactics over time, given that costs are nearly always orders of magnitude larger than estimated,
it seems to me we should do everything humanly possible to plan out the entire sweep of the war before leaping in.
Harper is like a be-whiskered cavalry general, eager to charge and behead the godless devils, damn the
consequences.

Obama’s plan is insane in the sense of doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different
result. It is just wishful thinking. The problem is there is no politically desirable solution, but Obama
can’t face that. He would sooner lie, pretend there is, then fob the messy problem off on his successor.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Looting the Treasury

The Afghan war has been dragging on for 15 years, 2 months and 28 days. Those who profit from the war have argued again and again for just another year.
Surely, if something could be done in a year, it would have been accomplished long ago. These calls for extensions
are just excuses to continue draining the treasury into the bank accounts of Monsanto (neé Xe and
Blackwater), General Dymanics, Halliburton, Lockheed etc. The Afghans defeated the invading Russians. They will
also fight until they defeat the Americans. Like any people they can’t tolerate the tyranny of occupation and
a puppet government.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Loser Americans

Given that the Americans had a massive advantage in numbers, budget and military technology, but were unable to
subdue Afghanistan in 15 years and 2 months
or Iraq in 13 years and 7 months, (even when they cheated with routine torture, banned weapons and
Geneva convention violations) Americans look pretty silly beating their breasts and shouting We’re Number One. At least in military strategy, both the Afghans and the Iraqis bested them.
As a result, not even tiny Iran fears America any more. Americans are like the fat rich kid with the fancy hockey
equipment. Pride and racism did them in. It made them underestimate their opponents.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Loser Victims

It seems almost every night there is a photo of a guy who looks like an extra from Deliverance on
the TV news. He has been killed in Afghanistan or Iraq, perhaps in an accident, perhaps by a bomb. This guy was
obviously a utter loser who felt the only way his life could have meaning was by hunting people on the other side
of the world for sport. He could at least feel superior to them. He could at least lord it over them with the help
of superior US military technology. He preferred to kill children and women because they are easier to kill and
they make more of a show dying. I rejoice at his elimination from the gene pool.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Losing Side War Criminals

War criminals are primarily people who aided and abetted aggressive (first strike
wars) and people who committed particularly cruel or unfair acts like targeting civilians, using banned weapons,
torture or group punishment. But in practice, war criminals are the military and political leaders of the losing
side. No matter what the leaders of the winning side did, they are never prosecuted.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Loyalty Creates Blindness

Human tribal loyalty is so strong that one nation will perceive an illegal act as a war crime and another will
perceive it as noble and heroic service to one’s country. A case in point. America illegally invaded both
Iraq and Afghanistan unprovoked using counterfeit evidence. This is the exact same crime Nazi Germany committed
invading Poland. Americans see the those who participated in the first crime as national heroes protecting American
freedom and the second as war criminals. The Germans see those who participated in the first as war criminals and
the second as national heroes (at least, they did at the time).

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Loyalty to Villains

One of the things I find extremely repulsive about humans is the way they support wars, even when their side is
completely in the wrong and is behaving inexcusably badly. They don’t care. It is all about team loyalty.
Stealing resources from your neighbours is mandatory when you are powerful enough to get away with it. Humans have
no more morality than army ants. We feign horror at how Nazis could possibly behave so badly, when nations today
are behaving even worse. This is normal human behaviour. We are such a spiteful species, that it is only a matter
of time until we drive ourselves extinct.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Lying About The Motives For The Afghan War

Americans admit that there are only at most 200 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. That suggests
their reason for spending billions each year to occupy the country has nothing to do with Al Qaeda.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Lying About Motives For War

American invaded Afghanistan and occupied for over a decade giving the reason they suspected bin Laden was
there. Later then discovered he was in Pakistan. Did they invade and occupy Pakistan? Nope. Did they leave when
there were less than 100 Al Qaeda left in Afghanistan? Nope. Did they leave Afghanistan
when they learned bin Laden was not there? Nope. Did they leave when bin Laden was dead? Nope. This inconsistency
suggests the Americans were lying all along about their reasons for invading and occupying Afghanistan. Such lying
about the true motives for war is the norm.
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Lying About Nukes

Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld lied about Saddam having nukes. Further, they lied that the intelligence people had
erred. The triumvirate never had any credible evidence, but went ahead with the invasion anyway for totally
different reasons. You know this is so for many reasons:

The USA never attacks a nation that has nukes.

Ambassador Joe Wilson said so.

The French said so.

The Italians said so.

The various arms inspectors said so.

Curveball turned out to be an anonymous alcoholic paid tens of thousands of dollars each month to compose
lurid tales without any corroboration.

There never any nukes or nuke precursors found.

Bush turned down Saddam’s offer to surrender. They wanted to invade and take the oil, not defang
Saddam.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Magic Coat

What is the reaction a mother has on learning her son has been killed in a the act of committing a crime such as
looting, torturing a crippled man who could not speak English, murdering an old lady, bombing a school, or raping a
child? Grief? Shame? Nope. Pride! She holds her head high and brags how her son sacrificed his life for God,
country, freedom, liberty and justice. What is the magic that allows to so delude herself? It is just a coat, also
known as a military uniform.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Major Malik Nidal Hasan

No matter how much you may disapprove of Major Malik Nidal Hasan shooting 31 American
soldiers at Fort Hood, this was not an act of terrorism. By definition terrorism only refers to killing civilians.
Personally, I see it as an act of treason. Hasan, acting as a psychiatrist was horrified at the stories returning
soldiers told him of what they did to children in Afghanistan and Iraq and decided he had to switch sides and kill
the killers to protect the kids. Though legally he almost certainly be convicted of murder, he was motivated by
defence of innocents, a legitimate excuse for murder if the attack is imminent.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Making the World a Better Place

Republicans claim they are spending billions to make Afghanistan a better place by
bombing its inhabitants. Yet they won’t spend a dime for school lunches, or a penny for malaria control in
Rwanda. It seems they have largess only for projects that make corrupt arms contractors rich and kill people, where
they can plunder trillions in oil or minerals as a side effect.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Male Pride

The primary motivation now for fighting the Afghanistan and Iraq wars is male pride. The pro-war faction
don’t want to admit that even with unlimited budget they cannot defeat a small band of what they consider
their racial inferiors. Granted, withdrawal means wounded pride, but persisting with the occupation means more
people maimed and killed on both sides just to procrastinate the emotional pain of admitting their enemies/victims will never say uncle no matter how viciously they are bombed or tortured. Americans
give lip service to Christianity, but the Afghans and Iraqis truly do believe they cannot die.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Mass Crucifixions

Given that the Americans and Canadians have used just about every form of torture and illegal warfare in
Afghanistan (and Iraq), it is a wonder they have not tried mass crucifixions as depicted in the movie
Spartacus.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Master Race Crap

Hitler managed to con the German people into thinking Germans were the master race, and that when they invaded
other countries, the Nazis were doing them a favour. In Hitler’s view, the invasions to subdue lesser races
were Germany’s moral duty. We laugh at German gullibility. Yet dozens of US military people have, with a
straight face, assured me they invaded then occupied Afghanistan then Iraq, killing hundreds of thousands of
Afghans and Iraqis plundering their resources purely out of an altruistic desire to serve their victims.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Master Race Lie

How did Hitler convince his fellow Germans it was perfectly OK to invade Poland and other neighbours? He
convinced them that Germans were the master race and thus had right to confiscate lebensraum (living room). Hitler
was not the only person to pull this filthy stunt. The Japanese military leaders convinced the Japanese they were
superior to all other people’s and hence had a natural right to conquer other nations. Israeli Jews convinced
themselves they were God’s chosen people and hence have a right confiscate by force the land of others.
George Bush convinced Americans they were #1 and hence had a natural right to confiscate the oil and other
resources of Afghanistan and Iraq. He even convinced them they had the right to torture children and use all manner
of banned weapons on civilians and to treat the Geneva Conventions of war as quaint
(Not even Hitler did that.) Bush turned his resource wars into religious crusades against Islam to intensify the
we-vs-them brutality and self-righteous smugness.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Maudlin Funerals

I am sick of the maudlin ceremonies to mark the deaths of soldiers. To a man, they were admitted war criminals,
who aided and abetted illegal aggressive (first strike) wars. Since Nuremberg, that has
been a capital (hanging) offence. They got what they damn well deserved. Why did they volunteer to go half way
around the world to kill people who were no threat to them or their families? Very simply because they were
bullies. More than anything else they wanted to bully, rape and kill people. The military let them do that with
minimal risk of prosecution. They lied to you that they were protecting their homeland, but they knew perfectly
well their victims could not possibly mount an invasion of Canada or the USA. With modern war-by-remote-control
weapons they were gleefully and sadistically shooting fish in a barrel. These people are the scum of the earth and
we should be glad to be rid of them. When soldiers come home, they smile and pretend to be human, fooling friends
and relatives, but they know what they did and that is why so many of them go psychotic harming the families that
spawned them or egged them on.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Measuring Evil

You have no idea how evil a man can be until he has absolute power of life or death over others and by extension
the power to rape, torture, bully, steal and extort, in other words until you see how he behaves after he has
volunteered for the military.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Meddling

The Harper government has decided it will prosecute anyone who fights on the wrong
side of any foreign conflict. I think it is none of their business. Imagine if America had prosecuted all those who
joined the rebels/terrorists in the Spanish civil war against Franco? In 1937, Canada
made it illegal for Canadians to become involved in the conflict. I am pretty sure posterity will look with more
jaundiced eyes on Israel than Harper does now. Right now, Harper encourages those who fight for Israel, but in
future, posterity could well consider the Israelis the bad guys. Most of these conflicts are none of our business.
Our job to act as neutral mediator, not to cheer on the dog fight, placing bets on one side.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Melioidosis

I was pleased to learn that even after all these years, American soldiers are continuing to come down with a
nasty contagious disease called Melioidosis that they were exposed to long ago butchering
peasants in the paddy fields of Viet Nam. It presents like tuberculosis with skin ulcers. You could look on it as
the result of bad karma for the soldiers and those that encouraged them.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Mentally Ill Soldiers

When soldiers keep reenlisting despite the horrors, we have either a sadist or a masochist suffering from
Stockholm syndrome. In either case they are mentally ill.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Merely Better

Though Obama is clearly better than the alternatives, he is still far from acceptable. The biggest problem is he
billed himself as peace candidate. He wound down the Iraq war and simultaneously cranked up the equally illegal,
equally pointless, Afghan war. He lied with the gusto of George W. Bush about the value of the war. He claims it is
bringing democracy. Yet even after 15 years, the Afghans live under a dictatorship and suffer under the same
Shari’a
as ever. Even Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls Afghanistan a narcostate. The
dictator that Bush chose, Hamid Karzai, is the most corrupt politician on the planet. Obama still pretends publicly
he is a fine fellow. This suggests that Obama is in the pocket of the defence industry, or possibly living in
terror of the out-of-control defence contractors like Xi who would not think twice about assassinating him. They
don’t care where the wars are, just that the hose into the taxpayers’ pockets grows ever thicker.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Militant: A More Accurate Term

I have noticed that the media are using the generic term militant replacing inaccurate
terms like terrorist or insurgent. It does not make specific,
unsupported claims about the opposition the way the other terms do.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Military Bases

America has 1000 military bases spanning the globe. They cannot do that and pretend
they have no intentions of world control and acting as world policeman.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Military Contractors — the scum of all scum

Military contractors are remarkably immoral people. Consider some of the things they do routinely:

They sell arms to both sides in a fight.

They sell banned weapons to terrorists or any other party with the money.

They bribe and threaten politicians into buying arms not needed. They push the USA into buying almost as many
arms as the rest of the world combined.

They foment and extend wars just to increase sales.

They constantly research new more painful and efficient ways to kill people, especially civilians.

They sell to dictators of countries that cannot afford arms. They figuratively snatch food out of the mouths
of the starving.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Military Corruption

On 2013-01-19 on the CBC
radio show The House Lt.-Gen. (Retired) Andrew Leslie pointed out that the Harper government spends
$3.25 billion a year on the military. He also pointed out that the yearly budget for
consultants and professional services has increased by $450 million since
2010. Further, money spend on the army itself, such has training has dropped 22%, even after you discount the drop from the wind-down of the Afghan war.

Leslie is concerned about impaired readiness. I am concerned about corruption. The military is the ideal place
to hide kickbacks to political donors. The military is not required have to anything to show for its expenditures,
such a bridge or sewer system. Further, the government can invoke secrecy at any time to block investigation of its
criminal activity. We have seen how when the Americans over-used consultants in Iraq and Afghanistan, it
immediately lead to monumental corruption.

Military Precision

Military precision is an oxymoron. Consider: when a civilian contractor demolishes a building almost never is
anyone injured. When the military does it, there is almost always collateral damage
— a weaseling term to hide the fact they usually kill non-combatants including children.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Military Right To Lie

The military almost never tells the truth. They reserve their most fiery ire for those who expose their lives.
They believe they have the right to mislead the public to get them to support military policy, e.g. resource
wars.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Military Shrinkage

The good news is since 1955 the number of people employed in the US military has
dropped from 18 per 1000 to 5. The
bad news is the arms have increased so much in expense and sophistication than the USA can destroy the entire
planet many times over, using any of a number of means.

Military Spending Is Pathetic Stimulus

The least efficient way to stimulate the economy is with military spending. Why?

When you are done you have nothing to show for it, no highways, schools, education, sewers or airports that
help support business.

The spending usually happens on the other side of the world. The spinoffs flow there, not back home.

Military spending is a high profit business. This means most of the money ends up in the pockets of a very
few, very rich people. Other forms of spending spread the money around more evenly.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Military Video Games

The military heavily invested early on in video games. They realised they would create a generation who could
kill without conscience. Further, the games were effectively flight simulators for future drone controls. One of
the side effects has been the creation of people who also like shooting kids and theatre audiences without
conscience.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Military Worms

Military men submit completely to their superiors. They behave with exaggerated subservience. They seek out and
voluntarily give up their freedom. They are willing slaves. They will even kill children for no more reason than a
superior told them to. This is the penultimate in wimpitude, yet oddly these man are considered hyper masculine.
They are psychologically sick, suffering from sadomasochism. It is similar to homosexual leather kink. I have
nothing but contempt for someone who relinquishes his moral compass to become the slave of a revered other. It is
similar to what cult members do surrendering to the cult leader.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Mindless Revenge

Americans plan to seek revenge for 9/11 for at least another century, to avenge the
deaths of 3500 innocent people. Why do Americans think that killing millions of innocent
people in Afghanistan and Iraq will go unavenged by a people who are known to hold grudges for millennia. Americans
hold the nutty idea the longer the war and crueler and barbaric they are to the Afghans and Iraqis, the sooner
America will be forgiven. This is even crazier than Hannibal Lecter’s revenge in Hannibal
Rising.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Misaimed Revenge

A Viet Nam vet father who lost a civilian son on 9/11 persuaded the US military to
write in loving memory of Jason Sekzer on the side of a 2000
pound bomb and drop it on some Iraqi children who had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11.
In fact no Iraqis did. He explained that he wanted someone to pay and did not care who. What a sick, cruel, stupid
old fart! How dare he dishonour his son in such a sadistic way. That stupid asshole has created so much misery in
his life with his precious ignorance that he feels so proud of.

Misery ⇒ Sadism

The more miserable people are, the crueler they are. I think this explains why the most sadistic soldiers live
in the Congo.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Misplaced Status

In America, the Coast Guard and the National Guard have the lowest status. Yet they are the ones who save lives
and defend the country. It is other services involved in war crimes, stealing resources, torture, killing and
raping children. This suggests Americans worship the brute who steals, cheats, tortures and kills for pleasure.
America has bought the old caveman ethic of might makes right.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Missing Shame

Other than spawning a son who is a child rapist, about the biggest shame that can befall a family is to have a
son who is a serial killer. Yet because of the power of propaganda, parents rarely feel any shame at all when their
son (or daughter) did his/her killing for money from the US military.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Misuse of the Term Terrorists

American talking heads, such as Pat Buchanan love to fulminate against the terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq who have the temerity to fight back at American soldiers who
illegally invaded and occupied their country unprovoked. They want to execute the P.O.W.s without civil trials
because, as combatants, they are utterly wicked.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Terrorists are people who kill civilians. Insurgents are people who rebel against the established government. The
resistance are people who fight against an occupying army. Americans refuse to call their victims by the
proper term — the resistance. Americans refuse to offer their victims the usual
Geneva Convention treatment offering the feeble excuse the Taliban don’t have uniforms. Could you imagine
civil rights depending on owning a Brooks Brothers suit? What a ludicrous idea!

The Monstrous Lie: Defending Freedoms

It is amazing how many otherwise sane and decent Americans subscribe to the monstrous lie that the Afghan and
Iraq wars are about defending the freedom of Americans. Not a single Afghan or Iraqi ever did anything to impair
American freedoms. Even Bush admitted Afghanistan and Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.
America attacked Afghanistan and Iraq, not the reverse. Americans are seriously interfering with the freedom of the
Afghan and Iraqi people, not the reverse. The real reasons for the illegal wars are:

To gain a free right of way for a pipeline through Afghanistan.

To profit from the $1 trillion a year Afghan heroin trade.

To pay off bribes from military contractors.

To gain control of Afghanistan’s lithium (needed for high performance car and computer batteries).

To steal Iraq’s oil.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Morality 101

It is not ok to kill civilians especially children. Doing so to try to change people’s political
affiliation is terrorism, even when soldiers do it.

It is not ok to invade other people’s country unless they attack yours first.

It is perfectly ok to kill soldiers invading or occupying your country, even when those soldiers are
American. You don’t need to be a soldier and you don’t need a uniform. Of course, the invading
soldiers will improperly call you a terrorist even when they are the true terrorists.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Morality of Terrorism

Terrorist revenge attacks against the USA are wrong because they are vigilante justice and because they hurt
randomly selected people who did no intentional harm. They are not wrong because the US military routinely commits
terrorism.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Most Degenerate People

People who burn, torture, maim and kill kids or who help others to do, so are the most degenerate creatures on
the planet. This includes every US, Canadian and British soldier who aided and abetted either of the Afghan or Iraq
wars, even if they just peeled potatoes. It is amazing how relentless propaganda has managed to convince so many
people these perverts are heroes protecting the freedom of the homeland. The propaganda does not require censorship
to be effective because of the power of wishful thinking. People are happy to believe flattering lies about
themselves, even obvious lies. This self-deception is even more shameful than the Nazi embrace of Hitler’s
propaganda since Hitler hid the truth.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Most Serious Crime

It is one thing to shoot a child between the eyes or drop a bomb on them, but killing them by slow torture by
burning them alive with napalm or white phosphorus is an order of magnitude more serious crime. The only punishment
I can think of that would be remotely severe enough, would be skinning the soldiers alive and dousing them in just
enough napalm and white phosphorus that it takes them at least a week to die in excruciating agony.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Motivated Terrorists

How is it possible a terrorist could murder innocent women and children? I have two answers:

Ask the American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq how they managed it.

If someone kills your family, simply killing him might not feel like sufficient revenge. You might want to
exterminate him, his family and everyone in his country in whose name he murdered your family.

Many of the American soldiers believe the lie that Afghans and Iraqis attacked on 9/11. That delusion steals them to butcher babies. Some do it out of ordinary psychopathology.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Motivating Resistance

An impoverished country, Afghanistan, was able to defeat the Russians and later the Americans partly because
Russians and Americans were so contemptuous of Islam that the Afghans considered defeating them as necessary as
defeating Satan. Eternal souls were at stake, not just lives.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Motivating Terrorists

Americans blame Islamic clerics for convincing terrorists to attack America. Have they forgotten that America
illegally attacked and invaded two Islamic countries unprovoked, ignored the Geneva conventions, used all manner of
banned weapons, used techniques of war that mainly killed civilians and children and routinely tortured P.O.W.s and
other detainees. It would seem natural to me that any young Islamic man would feel obligated to wage war on the
USA. In fact it would seem natural that anyone but an oil executive or defence industry
board member would feel obligated to try to stop the USA by some means, peaceful or violent. The most effective way
for the USA to fight terrorism would be to stop participating in it and thus stop bringing retribution on its
head.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Motivation for War

When the government starts tugging at your heartstrings to start another war, you can be 100% certain the government is not itself motivated by compassion. They don’t even care about
their own citizens. You won’t find the real motivation anywhere on TV or the newspapers. The media are team
players. They have to play ball if they want official news tidbits. Find out what that country about to be attacked
has that your government wants. Find out what that country did, that is not being mentioned, that pissed off your
government. Chomsky might know. The main motive for war is always the same, to reward the arms dealers and military
contractors for their contributions/bribes. The question is why did the government pick on some
particular country to attack.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Motive For Attack

MSNBC hosts wonder aloud how anyone could possibly want to attack America in a terrorist attack. How could they
have forgotten America is at war? America invaded Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan torturing and/or killing over a
million people to steal their oil and seedstocks. When you hurt people’s kids and relatives that way they
have a tendency to want to get back at you.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Motive For the Civil War

Most people think the North fought the South in the American civil war to free the slaves. The Emancipation
Proclamation did not come until two years into the war. The war was going badly and Lincoln needed the 1,778,975 black soldiers black soldiers. The actual fight was over the south’s refusal to pay
taxes and subsequent attempt to secede. Obviously the freed blacks were eager for citizenship, the right to vote,
the right to own land, the right to hold office and full equality with whites. However, very few whites north or
south were willing to grant those freedoms. They were given some freedoms to thank them for their military service,
but over the following decades, the south successfully lobbied to have all those rights taken away. The new labour
laws were slavery except in name.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Motive for Mass Suicide

It is distressing watching my planet marching toward nuclear war and irreversible climate change that
Environment Canada says will be almost as destructive. What is much more depressing is knowing we are doing this
primarily for the trivial motive of increased corporate profit. We are like monkeys trapped by greed, unable to let
go of the banana. We would sooner die than give up a little profit. Those that run the defence industries and oil
companies are clearly insane and should be treated accordingly.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Motive For Muslim Revenge

The Muslim world has millions of times more reasons to kill Americans than it did on 9/11. The United States used 9/11 as an excuse to make war on any Muslim
(e.g. Afghans and Iraqis) not just the ones responsible for 9/11. They have killed
millions of civilians. They have ignored the Geneva conventions as quaint. They have
routinely tortured POWs. They used banned weapons designed to kill as
painfully and slowly as possible. They have stolen all the natural resources of the countries they invaded. Even
Nazis did not behave that badly. Americans are such conceited egotists, they don’t see their behaviour as
criminal.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Motive For Secrecy

The US military likes to pretend its secrecy is to hide information from the Iraqis or Afghans. That does not
take much technology. It is actually to hide the fact the USA is breaking its own laws, international laws and all
moral laws of decency from the American citizen and from the world.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Motive for Torture

Even with the combined might of Germany, Japan and Italy attacking, when defeat looked a distinct possibility,
the USA did not resort to torture. Yet under Cheney-Bush, under the potential threat of but a tiny band of
terrorists, the USA succumbed to the dark side. I don’t believe this was done for practical reasons. It was
done for the sexual pleasure of the psychopathic president and vice president. They blocked Judge
Hellerstein’s subpoena of the torture and rape tapes the sicko pair were viewing from Iraq.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Motive For Torture

People torture others because they enjoy torturing them, period. People tortured will say whatever they think
will make the pain stop. They will confess any crime, betray anyone, make up any stupid story… Despite silly
scenarios on 24, torture does not produce useful information, much less information that can save
lives. Torture is illegal. To help sell it to the public, to mollify their natural outrage, FOX and friends
produced silly propaganda dramas like 24. I find it hard to believe that Kiefer Sutherland did not
understand he was selling his soul by agreeing to star.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Motives For the Afghan War

3 months before 9/11, the US threatened the Taliban that if
they did not agree to form a federation with the Northern Alliance and built a pipeline to take Caspian oil to the
sea, there would be military repercussions. The Taliban were told they had a choice of a
carpet of gold or a carpet of bombs. Three months later, on 2001-10-07, the USA
made good its threat and invaded Afghanistan. The key fact is the invasion was planned long before 9/11. 9/11 and terrorism were just a convenient cover for yet another
resource war.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Motives for Terrorism

Every time there is a terrorist attack or terrorist attempt on Canada, Britain or the USA, the media make
comments of the form:

The attacker had no motive.

The attacker was a crazed monster.

The attack was completely irrational.

I would like to point out this is not so. It is mass self deception. The media conveniently forget the illegal
aggressive (first strike) Afghan and Iraq wars where the west killed hundreds of
thousands of civilians. It is normal for a country attacked, or its sympathisers, to fight back. Disingenuous
surprise at this obvious fact is acting like a Pythonesque twit. Why do they fight back?

To deter further attacks. Retaliation with terrorism is rational because the west has been committing
terrorist acts (namely killing civilians). Recall that the allies committed terrorism by bombing Dresden to
retaliate Hitler’s buzz bombing of London’s civilians.

Though not particularly morally admirable, it is still rational to seek revenge for past atrocities including
torture and the use of banned weapons such as white phosphorus and depleted uranium.

The motivation of the terrorists is considerably more rational than that of western soldiers who killed
without motive other than personal sadism when their nations were in no danger.

Obviously, the west should do everything to deter such attacks, but they should not deceive themselves that the
attacks are the work of madmen. They should also keep their eyes open to their part is motivating the attacks
rather that deceiving themselves they have been perfect Boy Scouts.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Motives For Terrorism

I have heard terrorism experts talking from all over the world. They nearly all make the same error. They
presume terrorists have no motive for their attacks. The experts claim terrorists simply hate the west for no
reason.

I find this astounding. Surely terrorism experts would have completed a deep study of the motivations of
terrorists. They are not mysterious. Bin Laden explained his reasons. The terrorist recruitment sites give their
reasons. The reasons are obvious: the United States illegally and unprovoked attacked Afghanistan and Iraq, killed
millions of people, mostly children, used banned weapons and routinely used torture then sold off the oil. Further,
the west has supported Israel in taking Palestinian land and funded its apartheid system. These are not classified
secrets.

We can’t very well commit atrocities like those and expect the victims to be totally cool with them. My
question is, are these experts really that stupid, or are they just following the party propaganda line?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Motives To Re-Enlist

Any soldier who has been to Afghanistan or Iraq knows without any doubt that the foe would utterly incapable of
mounting an invasion against the USA. So why do they re-enlist? The conditions are appalling. It can’t be to
defend the USA. Is it because they are addicted the drugs so freely available, they are addicted to bullying and
killing whomever they please using whatever sick means they chose, they are addicted to raping children, they are
addicted to torture, they are addicted to using banned weapons such as white phosphorus to kill their victims in
the most slow and painful ways? All their relationships back home have died. They are just waiting for death? All
of the above? Power corrupts.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Mouse Trap Metaphor

The
Tomcat Home Rat Trap is a beautiful metaphor for American attitudes to the children of Afghanistan and Iraq
killed by the American occupation. The advantage of the trap is it does not let you see the dead rat or learn the
mechanism by which the rat was killed. Deliberate ignorance somehow assuages the conscience.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Muggers Pleading Self Defence

I have to laugh contemptuously at Americans who tell they invaded Iraq motivated out of self defence because the
Iraqis dared to shoot back at Americans who invaded their country. This is like a mugger pleading self defence
because his victim failed to hand over his wallet without a fight.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Murder Is Worse Than Advertised

Murder is such an arrogant crime, especially in war. One person judges another on some narrow criteria and
blocks them from ever after having another experience. Often the person killed did nothing wrong at all. They were
just in the way because the knew something, owned something or blocked the murderer from getting something he had
no right to.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Murdering in their Sleep

Robert Bales confessed to butchering 9 Afghan children and 7
adult civilians as they slept. He will probably try an insanity defence saying he had a sudden psychotic break. If
I were on the jury, this would probably not fly with me. He had three tours of duty killing civilians in ones and
twos. That shows plenty of premeditation. The evidence that he had collaborators will also throw a monkey wrench
into that defence.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Murderous Presidents

Even the most peaceful president kills hundreds of thousands of victims. Perhaps if presidents kept the heads of
their victims pickled in jars, their deeds would be recognised as murder.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Muslim Revenge

Of course, Muslims want to wring American necks. Americans attacked them unprovoked, killed and tortured their
kids and stole the only thing that had of value — their oil. If Americans don’t like that, they should
stop doing so many things that provoke revenge.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

My Mission

I argue against illegal wars of aggression, illegal use of banned weapons, torture, and letting corporations run
things unregulated. I push people to provide evidence for their religious beliefs. I ask people to preserve the
planet they live on so it will continue to support them and their grandchildren. From where I stand, this is all
motherhood, barely worth stating, hardly controversial, yet people routinely threaten to kill me for saying it.
What sort of weirdos favour war, torture, being bullied by corporations, lies passed off as truth or destroying
your own life support system? Apparently, the vast majority of Americans.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

My Side’s Atrocities

Most people are preoccupied with the atrocities the other guy commits. I am preoccupied with the atrocities my
side commits. Why? I am responsible for what my side does, not for what the other guy does.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

A Nation of Child Killers

Americans are funny. They tell me their weapons are best on the planet, the most efficient, the most lethal.
They even have unmanned Predator drones to kill by remote control without endangering the killer. They tell me they
have spend $4 trillion dollars pounding the rat shit out of Afghanistan and Iraq.
They show me videos of US soldiers picking off people on the street like zombies in a video game. They show me
videos of smart bombs sliding in a windows and killing everyone in the building. But when I show pictures of some
of the casualties, they threaten my life and claim Americans hardly killed anyone. Huh? What were they doing then
with all those bombers, predator drones, tanks, rocket launchers etc. They spent nearly all money. Since they fight
by remote control, most of those kills will be kids, simply because of the age distribution. Most of the people in
Afghanistan are under 15. If you fire into a random building, you will kill mostly kids.
This sort of random behaviour was broadcast live on CNN
the day the USA invaded Baghdad. Americans watched but it did not dawn on them that those apartment buildings the
Americans were blowing up were full of kids. I understood they were because I watched with ex-patriate Iraqis who
knew these neighborhoods and knew who lived in the buildings. Americans treated it like a fireworks show. A pox on
them all! That a mindless idiot nation!

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Nation State Terrorism

Terrorism has been on the rise. The parties committing it are nation states, militant organisations,
corporations and individuals. The victims are usually individuals. I suspect there will be a shift toward more
individuals committing the terrorism, particularly against corporations. The fury is there. All that is required is
a few examples to trigger a wave of copy cats. For example, I predict oil pipelines will be increasingly blown up
by individuals. Fish farm nets will be slashed. Bank computers will be hacked. Head offices will be blown up. Homes
of executives will be destroyed. Churches will be burned. It would extremely difficult to protect against all forms
of terror from all angry individuals. The main anti-terror technique is infiltration of a terrorist organisation.
If there is no organisation, there is nothing to infiltrate. The best defence for a corporation is to behave better
than its competition and trust the competition will bare the brunt of the anger.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

National Guard Tainted

The considerable honour of enlisting in the National Guard has been lost since such enlistment is now tantamount
to agreeing to kill innocent people in Afghanistan and Iraq if so ordered.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

National Hypocrisy Day

Memorial Day in the USA and Remembrance Day
in Canada should be called National Hypocrisy day. All the vets of Viet Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq are war criminals
guilty of a capital crime namely aiding and abetting an aggressive (illegal, first
strike) war. The military pretend the fallen died defending their country. They did no such thing. They died
stealing the natural resources of other countries. They deserve no more honour than the Nazis hanged at Nuremberg
for this exact same crime.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Native Resentment

Native people in Canada seem hostile to whites. They also seem to be mired in poverty. When you study the
history of how the American and Canadian governments treated indigenous people historically, it all makes sense.
You might expect them to be much more resentful than they are.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Natural Justice for War Criminals

A soldier and his wife deserve no pity or aid when he is crippled or mentally injured. He volunteered for an
illegal aggressive war. He did that not to defend Canada but for adventure, bloodlust or money. He is guilty of the
exact same crime for which all Nazis were hanged in Nuremberg, namely aiding and abetting an aggressive (first strike) war.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Natural Selection On Humans

Americans are big believers in young earth creationism, so they don’t understand that Darwinian natural
selection works on them too. In particular, it works to eliminate from the gene pool, those who get themselves
killed or maimed in war. Those who are maimed are impaired in their ability to find mates and have children. The
good news is people who get off on hunting fellow humans for sport are gradually being eliminated.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Nazi American Soldiers

The image to the right shows an American soldier displaying a severed Iraqi arm hung in a mosque to terrorise the
Iraqi resistance. If the photo were in black and white, you might easily conclude the soldier was a Nazi.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Nazi Candidates

A nation that closes its eyes while its military pummels two nations for a decade who are no threat to the USA,
fully deserves a president like Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Rick
Santorum
or Sarah Palin to dismantle their country.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Nazi Memorial Day

Should the Nazis have their memorial day? Should they celebrate the battles they won and the grand dream of
conquest they fought for and lost? If not, then neither have the Americans any right to celebrate the illegal Viet
Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq wars. All those who participated have broken international law; they are guilty of a
capital (death penalty) international
war crime, namely aiding and
abetting an aggressive (first strike) war. The fallen in those wars do not deserve to be
mourned any more than the Nazi war criminals hanged at the end of WWII
do. It is high time to stop pretending those in the military served their country,
defended freedom etc. They did nothing of the kind. They attacked other nations to help
US corporations gain control of natural resources. Personally, they sought adventure and a way to safely slake
blood lust. The USA was never at risk from these tiny foes. Those who enlisted in the military are socially
acceptable serial killers. Those who were drafted and served were moral cowards. None deserved to be
commemorated.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Nazi Propaganda Techniques

The Nazis were even better than the Americans at getting people whipped up with enthusiasm for an unjust war.
Everyone is familiar with the mandatory heil Hitler salute, which reinforced subjection to Hitler and made clear
everyone else was giving obeisance. Hitler responded with a languorous over the shoulder salute. When orating,
Goebbels would just start shaking his finger as if chastising an unusually naughty child, but he would keep going
without a pause for minutes at a time with a very fast cadence. I suspect the intent was to trigger primal fear of
parental disapproval. Sometimes he would just shake his hand the same way. He also did some motions that were limp
wristed and looked a bit like magician gestures. Perhaps these were for riveting attention.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Nazi TV Heroes

Watching American TV news is so surreal. It is as if the Nazis had won WWII. They interview admitted war criminals and torturers and treat them with the respect
due national heroes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Nazis vs Americans

Hitler hid the facts from his people and threatened with death or worse those that questioned his version of
reality. In contrast, every American has access to the facts necessary to understand his country illegally invaded
two countries on false pretenses. He knows his country deliberately sent the earth into an extinction event with
global warming via extravagant greenhouse gas emissions. And, with very few exceptions, American citizens cheered
their country on in its execrable ways. That is why I hold Americans in far greater contempt than I hold the
Germans in Nazi Germany.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Nazis With a Texan Accent

Most people when they think of Nazis think of German accents, goose stepping and swastikas. These are just the
symbols of one particular flowering of Naziism. The heart of Naziism is unrepentant lying, scapegoating, extreme
nationalism, claiming to be #1 in God’s eyes, total lack of compassion for the weak, ruthlessness and sadism.
You have seen it flower again recently, this time with a Texas accent.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

naïve
Americans

Are the American military lying or are they really so naïve
they believe the Iraqis will successfully fight a war for them they could not win in
13 years?
Why would the Iraqis have any interest in fighting the enemies of a country that plundered them and killed millions
of their relatives? If the Iraqis thought they could win, they would fight America too.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

naïveté

Any time you have discounted an atrocity story on the grounds you could not believe that people could be that
cruel, you were being pathetically naïve.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich is a scumbag. He is deliberately fomenting bad blood between Christian and Islamic Americans for
his own political benefit. Hitler used the same filthy trick, greasing his way to power on the backs of Jews.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Nixon’s Betrayal

Nixon campaigned on ending the Viet Nam War, but when he got into office, he escalated it. The irony is he was
not impeached for than massive lie, but was driven from office by Watergate, his coverup of a bit of
espionage.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

No Defence

It is astounding how many Americans believe the lie that US soldiers are defending America in the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq. They know that the USA attacked both those countries unprovoked. They know that first strikes
are illegal. They know those countries have no navy, air force or weapons with which to attack the USA. They know
the USA routinely tortures POWs. They know the USA considers the Geneva
conventions quaint. If they read the foreign press, they also know the USA uses banned
weapons that even Hitler did not use. These Americans are no better than Nazis patriotically pretending
Germany’s war crimes were justified.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

No Excuses to Murder

Imagine a future where wearing a uniform is no longer an excuse to murder.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

No Honour for Afghan Vets

Vets of the Afghan war are war criminals, in the strict, literal, legal sense, who
have all openly committed a capital crime, even if they just aided and abetted the war without
killing anyone. Just as we do not fête admittedly guilty criminals on death row, we have no business
honouring Afghan vets, alive or dead. We should treat them the same contempt we treat civilian child murderers and
rapists.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

No Pity

In Canada, veterans disproportionately suffer from alcoholism, PTSD
and homelessness. I have no pity for them. When they enlisted for Afghanistan, they knew perfectly well Afghanistan
had not attacked Canada or any of our allies. They knew Afghanistan had no means to attack Canada. They knew they
were behaving analogously to the Nazis invading Poland. Why were they so eager? the money, the adventure and the
opportunity to rape and kill without consequences. They deserved far worse consequences than homelessness.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

No Reason To Continue

I have yet to hear a single plausible reason for continuing the Afghan war, much less a reason why it is the
best way to spend those billions.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

No Ref

We all know how young athletic men with high testosterone levels behave in a football or hockey game. Imagine
how they would behave without a referee! War is an athletic contest with lethal weapons and no referee. Why then
are we surprised at torture and other flagrant violations of the Geneva convention rules of war?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

No Such thing as Altruistic Murder

There is absolutely nothing noble about invading a country and torturing/killing its people for
15 years and 2 months
to force them to accept the worlds biggest drug lord and most corrupt war lord, Hamid Karzai, as their dictator,
give up their religion and hand over their oil and minerals. All manner of slimy liars in America and Canada,
including the leaders of both countries, try to disguise this occupation as self defence, liberation and
altruism.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

No Surrender

Ask people who were alive in 1939 how they felt about Hitler. They will tell you he
was such an awful man that there was no possibility of surrender under any circumstances. I submit the people of
Afghanistan and Iraq feel the same way about the Americans. Surrender is unthinkable. Why would they feel this
way?

Aiding and abetting such invasions is a capital offense.

The war is illegal on many grounds in American law. Americans don’t even follow their own rules.

Americans lied that Afghanistan and Iraq were behind 9/11 when there is no evidence
to support that. Not even George W. Bush made that claim.

Bush lied that Iraq had nukes and they knew precisely where they where. Even after the lie was exposed the
Americans refused to with withdraw.

Obama auctioned off all of Iraq’s oil reserves to American and European oil companies.

Americans gave all of Iraq’s traditional seed genome to Monsanto who then introduced terminator genes
and forced Iraqis to pay exorbitant prices for their own traditional seed.

Americans invaded Afghanistan because the Taliban refused Unocal a free right of way for a pipeline.

Americans invaded Afghanistan because they wanted the bulk of the world’s lithium hidden under Afgan
soil to use in high-performance batteries.

George W. Bush called the Geneva conventions quaint.

Americans routinely torture all POWs.

Americans drop bombs on homes from airplanes and drones. This kills mostly civilians and of those mostly
children.

Americans use banned weapons such as napalm, white phosphorus, cluster bombs (disguised as food packets) and
land mines.

American installed an ex-Unocal man, Hamid Karzai as puppet dictator. He is the most corrupt politician on
the planet and the world’s biggest heroin drug lord.

Americans have desecrated mosques and tried to convert the people away from Islam.

Americans have occupied Afghanistan since 2001-10-27 for
15 years, 2 months and 2 days
and Iraq since 2003-03-20 for 13 years, 8 months and 20 days. The Americans keep saying they are going to leave, but then make
up yet another excuse to stay. They have constructed their buildings as if the occupation were to last at least
50 years. It looks pretty much as if they plan to stay until every last barrel of oil
and gram of lithium is gone.

The USA CIA
trained Saddam and helped him to power. Prior to that Iraq was prosperous free country.

The USA overthrew the democratic government in Iran and installed the Shah as dictator. He was one of the
world’s top ten bad guys.

Under American occupation, heroin exports went from zero to $1 trillion a year
in Afghanistan — more than enough to keep the world’s junkies stoned. It is now used to make
addictive products aimed at children such as cheese sold in Texas elementary
schools.

Americans have no sense of restraint in war. They are the only country have used nukes on civilians.

Americans bombed Tokyo in WWII
using napalm. This was the largest, most lethal, bombing of civilians in world history and their record stands to
this day.

Americans support the Israelis in their invasion and occupation of Palestine and the apartheid system they
set up and in their illegal occupation of Arab territory.

If you live in the USA, you will probably disagree with some of the items on that list. But that is irrelevant.
People outside the USA have a much dimmer view of America’s behaviour than Americans have of themselves. What
counts is what the Afghans and Iraqis think in determining how likely they are to surrender. Hitler did some pretty
nasty stuff, but his list is considerably shorter. No wonder the Afghans and Iraqis refuse to surrender! Further
the victims of America’s invasions have been previously toughened by living under the domination of Saddam
and the Russians. They have suffered far too much to give up now. As Napoléon
said How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men
who had no alternative but death.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

No Threat Ever

You know that Afghanistan and Iraq never were any threat to the USA because the military talks of withdrawing or ending the occupation not surrender.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

No Trial?

Is it not somewhat hypocritical to assassinate bin Laden without a trial even a trial in absentia, all in the
name of preserving constitutional freedom?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Non-heroes

In WWII, the allies were keen on killing civilians,
including women, children and babies. They would do this even if it meant distracting resources away from more
important military objectives. I don’t think this was a particularly admirable thing to do. I think much of
the admiration for those who fought WWII
is unjustified.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Not Defence

Canada has been butchering civilians in Afghanistan for 15 years, claiming we are doing it to protect
our freedoms. However, the Afghans have killed exactly 0 Canadian civilians in all that
time. The only freedoms Canadians have lost were those squelched by Steven Harper. The war is clearly a gigantic
lie to cover up the cynical plundering of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Not Just Hitler

There is so much focus on the Jews in the concentration camps, that we forget gays and Roma people were treated
equally badly.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

NRA
works for Al Qaeda

Al Qaeda should tithe 90% of its income to the NRA. The NRA
is able to kill off Americans far more efficiently than it can.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Nuclear Attack Sirens

Circa 1961, when I was 13 years
old, Canada installed a string of 1700 early warning nuclear attack sirens. They had a
distinctive baleful sound that could not be confused with any other siren. The sirens had a dry run test one day
while we were in school. The idea was we had at most 20 minutes to get home and die with
our parents. I lived 4 km(2.49 miles) away. I asked what was the point where I died: at school,
at home or somewhere in between. I got an irritated scowl, but no answer in response. One morning, about a year
later, in the middle of the Cuban missile crisis, of 1962-10-14 sirens went off. We
turned on the radio for news. It was dead. Cold war tensions were high at the time. I figured this was it. I made
my bed and went out to sit on a giant granite outcropping in the front yard. From there I could see the entire
harbour and the entire city of Vancouver and its environs. I waited for the bombers to come. I was disgusted with
my fellow man for creating weapons with such an idiotic purpose as killing us all. I waited and waited. Nothing
happened. It turned out the radio not working had a perfectly ordinary explanation and we were told the sirens had
gone off because the damp (It rained half the year in West Van) had short circuited them. Ever since, I have been a
strong anti-nuclear advocate.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Nuclear China

How can anyone trust China to make fail-safe nuclear weapons when they can’t make a kettle that lasts a
year?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Nuclear Defense

If the US is attacked with nukes, they will be smuggled in. ABMs (Anti-Balistic Missiles)
will be useless. Retaliation will be useless since there will be no clear attacker. The easiest way to defeat a
defense is to bypass it.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Nuclear False Alarm

I was a 14-year old boy living at the time of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 October
in West Vancouver, BC Canada. I was quite frightened. I figured we would all die that day, so I
uncharacteristically did not do my homework. The Diefenbaker government had installed nuclear war warning sirens
that sounded a bit like foghorns. A few weeks earlier we had a nuclear war drill. I asked the teacher What is the point of going home?. We would just die there anyway. He had no answer.

That morning the sirens went off. I turned on the radio for details. There was no sound at all, not on any
station. My three younger sisters all started wailing, We are all going to die. My Dad
angrily snapped, Shut up. There must be some logical explanation.

There was a huge volcanic rock in the front yard. I made my bend and went out and sat on it and had a
magnificent view of the Vancouver harbour. I waited for the jets to come. I waited and waited. They did not show
up.

It turned out moisture had shorted and triggered the sirens and the tube radio was simply broken. Kennedy
secretly agreed to remove his missiles from Turkey and Khrushchev agreed to remove his missiles from Cuba. It is
hard for anyone today to understand what it was like to be so close to a pointless nuclear war, fueled by the
testosterone of assholes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Nuclear Proliferation

On 2002-01-19, in the SOTU, the USA announced its
intention to eliminate the axis of evil (Iraq, Iran and North Korea). It then invaded Iraq and bombed it to rubble.
Iraq had no WMDs. North Korea developed primitive
nukes. The USA left it entirely alone. Iran enriched uranium but did not develop a nuclear weapon. The USA
threatened to bomb it, but so far has not carried through.

Given that nukes are a rational response to threats of annihilation, if we don’t want Iran and North Korea
developing nukes we (including Israel) should stop threatening to annihilate them. Further, if we want others to
give up nukes, we should give them up ourselves.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Nuclear War

Sane people will never start a nuclear war. The consequences are too horrible even for the winner of a completely successful surprise attack.

However, Christians and Muslims are not sane. They imagine destroying this world will bring on
a better one. We should never let them near nukes. Unfortunately, most of the US military are nuts, infected with
the Christian virus. They work hard to infect new recruits with it.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

A Nuke-free Middle East

If the USA thinks it is ok to strangle a country financially in order to prevent it from getting nukes, surely
it is ok to strangle a rogue state financially in order to get them to give up nukes they hold illegally. The
middle east cannot be stable until there are no nukes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Nukes Lie

George W. Bush illegally invaded Iraq on the grounds that Iraq has nuclear weapons. This was bogus on many
grounds:

If possession of nukes is a valid excuse for preemptive invasion, then it would be justified for Iran to
invade Israel or Russia the USA.

Iraq had never tested a nuke.

Ambassador Joe Wilson checked up on some of the evidence and found it was all counterfeit.

The only evidence came from an anonymous alcoholic that officials of the USA never met or interviewed. They
paid him $40,000 a month to make stuff up.

The Italian intelligence warned the USA the evidence was bogus.

UNInspectors said there were no
WMDs.

After the invasion, there was no sign of nukes or any other weapon of mass destruction, for that matter. The
Bush administration had boldly lied claiming to have solid proof of the presence of nukes, including their
location.

Bush would not touch North Korea with a 10-foot pole. He knew they
had nukes. The Americans charged boldly into Iraq without any precautions for fall-out, much
less a nuclear explosion. Obviously, they were not expecting any sort of nuclear defence.

Even after it was proved where were no WMD
s, the Americans continued their occupation to this day. The war obviously had nothing to do with
WMD
s all along.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Nukes Seem Safe

To the public, nuclear weapons seem quite safe, but that is only because they are never permitted to learn about
accidents, near misses, security breaches, mental breakdowns or countries threatening each other with their
use.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Nutty Americans

Americans are utterly nuts. They deny themselves fire fighters, sewers, schools, police, jobs… so they
can blow $3 billion a month — at least $30,000,000 per goat herd Al Qaeda in Afghanistan each month. (The money is really going for
corruption.) How could a people be so stupid as to pay such a ridiculously high bill for such a trivial war?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Obama = Cheney Light

Obama usually avoids the bellicose rhetoric of the Cheney-Bush-Rumsfeld era, but he shovels the same amount of
cash to the mercenaries and military contractors. The Afghanistan and Iraq wars are killing people faster than ever
before. Peace is no closer.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Obama Is Also A War Criminal

Obama is huge improvement over W., but he is still a war criminal. Why? He is escalating the illegal Afghanistan
war. America originally attacked Afghanistan unprovoked. Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9/11. The official story is bin Laden, a Saudi, masterminded 9/11 and Pakistan bankrolled it. Even Obama admits there are only 100 Al-Qaeda left in the country.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Obama Bigger Terrorist Than Osama

Terrorism is defined as killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation. Thus Obama is
a much bigger terrorist than Osama since he ordered killed far more civilians. However, because of the magic of
mass communications, people pretend Obama’s murders don’t count as terrorism. One explanation is that
Americans think only attacks against Americans count as terrorism. Lives of people from other countries, especially
third world countries have no values and hence killing them for any reason does not count as terrorism.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Obama, Peace Candidate

Obama billed himself as a peace candidate. He wound down the Iraq war to 50%, but he
cranked up the equally pointless Afghanistan war to 200%. It is possible Obama is a
simple liar, but I think the problem is the power of the defence industry. They have so
much money, they can buy elections or assassinate anyone who gets in their way. Obama negotiated with them. That
was the best deal he could get.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Obama, Superspy

Obama cannot be trusted on the matter of domestic spying. On his watch, the NSA
and the National Geographic put out a propaganda video called
Inside the NSA: America’s Cyber Secrets. In it the top six brass in the NSA
swear up and down they do not spy on American citizens and further it would be unconstitutional and impossible for
them to do so. Of course, Edward Snowden proved that a bald-faced lie. Then the NSA
tried to excuse its blanket spying on American citizens by pointing out they once derived useful information from
spying on suspected terrorists is Yemen, which has absolutely nothing to do with spying on American citizens. He
knowingly violated the US constitution. He has no right to remain in office.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Obama’s Big Lie

Obama’s outrageously big lie is that the USA is fighting Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan to protect the USA. The
US military estimates there are less than 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and they are
fighting with homemade roadside IED
s, hardly a weapon suitable for mounting an attack on the USA. America is occupying Afghanistan because the arms
industry insists on an ongoing expensive war and because Obama wants Afghanistan’s minerals and oil.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Obama’s Lie

Even president Obama pretends to be under the delusion it is legal for the USA to attack any country it pleases
merely on the grounds that country or any small group of its citizens might attack at some point in the future,
even when that country has never attacked and has no means to attack. He has no excuse. He has the legal training
to know better. It is as silly as pleading self defence for axe murdering your neighbour because, in your paranoid
fantasies, he might someday attack you in your sleep with his lawnmower.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Obama’s Nazi Defence

If Obama had defended the Nazis at Nuremberg, his defence would go like this. Come on,
fellas. Let’s forgive and forget. Let’s Look Forward™, After all, all those accused were acting
with the best of motives. Further, they were just following orders. We have an economy to rebuild. We can’t
dwell on the past.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Obama’s Tiger

Obama has a tiger by the tail. Most of the soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq are contractor mercenaries. If he
lets them go, they will go to the highest bidder, most likely to America’s enemies. Having worked for
America, they intimately know her weaknesses.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Obama’s Victory

Obama refused to use the military against Russia when it invaded the Ukraine. He wanted to avoid uncontrolled
escalation. He told people his sanctions against Russia would work, but they would take time. Nearly everyone
accused him of being a wimp. The combined effect of Obama’s sanctions and his policies to drive down fossil
fuel prices worked (because Russia’ biggest export is fossil fuels). Putin has been screaming Uncle in the world press repeatedly of late. Yet nobody gives Obama any credit for his relatively
pain-free victory.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Obesity Implies Drones

Given the obesity epidemic, in the future decades, Americans will have no choice but to fight with drones.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Obsession with Corpses

People spent an enormous amount of effort to find and move the corpse of Lawrence Gordon away from German
corpses to be near Canadian corpses. If find this obsession quite creepy and racist. It is fueled by delusions that
the dead are haunting the living.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Offensive Military

The USA has not fought a defensive war in 71 years. It is long past time to acknowledge that the military is not
primarily for defence.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Oil Auction

The American occupation put all of Iraq’s oil resources up for auction to American and European oil
interests on the very day Obama announced the end of the Iraq war. No American news organisation commented on the
co-incidence. What does this tell you about the ability of Americans to look at
themselves honestly?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Omar Khadr

American soldiers illegally invaded Omar Khadr’s native country and tried to kill him. By all the ordinary
rules of war and self-defence, Khadr had every right to try to kill his attackers. Further, he was a child soldier
age 15. Americans convicted him of terrorism (which is absurd since he did not even
allegedly hurt any civilians or try to change their political views by force) and tortured him for 10 years in Guantánamo
as Canada did nothing to rescue him even though he was a Canadian citizen. He is a simple. Now Canada is preparing
to hold him prisoner for a further 8 year sentence. This is an outrage. I hope he
eventually sues his tormentors for billions of dollars. May those responsible be imprisoned and tortured
themselves. What the hell did Americans expect of Khadr — sit there and be killed? Every American should
wretch into the toilet in shame at how badly their country has behaved.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Omar Khadr

Omar Khadr was a 15-year old Canadian citizen who went to Afghanistan to defend it against illegal American
invaders. A group of American soldiers attacked and he allegedly shot and killed one in self defence. American
locked him in Guantánamo
torture camp and held him without charge or trial. Legally, Khadr should have been treated as a child soldier or
failing that at least as a P.O.W. Canada did nothing to help him and even refused to co-operate in a plea bargain
where he could choose between confessing to a long list of crimes and a jail sentence in Canada or indefinite
detention. I am absolutely disgusted with both the USA and Canada for their contempt for law. This is pure bully
mentality — might makes right. Khadr did nothing wrong. Even if he did shoot an American soldier, he had
every right to defend his country of origin and to shoot illegal invaders, especially when they attacked him.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Omar Khadr

The whole Khadr affair makes no sense.

There is no evidence he killed anyone.

He was tortured into confessing.

It is perfectly legal to shoot people invading your country. At worst Khadr should be a prisoner of war.
Killing invaders is not a war crime.

The Americans were shooting at Khadr. That means if Khadr killed anyone, he did it in self defence.

He was only 15. He should have been treated as a child soldier.

His civil rights have been violated. He should be released.

For some reason the Americans decided to make an example of him by ignoring all their own laws.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Omar Khadr Appeal

Here are some of the reasons I think Omar Khadr should win his appeal:

torture is illegal

all kinds of other improprieties and illegalities in handling his case. Normally when procedure is violated
the case is thrown out.

ignoring that he was a child soldier.

ignoring fact USA illegally invaded Afghanistan. They had no business being there.

ignoring the fact death occurred in war. At worst he should have been arrested as a
POW.

ignoring the fact the Americans attacked Khadr. He had a right to self defence.

ignoring the fact the confession was extracted under duress.

it is legal to kill those who invade your country.

The prime minister’s office many times interfered in the case, working against him.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Opening Day of the Iraq War

I was with some Iraqi ex-patriates the day the Iraq war started. They naively believed Bush was going to
liberate the country from Saddam then leave. What we saw on the TV screen was Americans bombing the residential
sections of Baghdad, the familiar neighbourhoods where their friends and families lived back home. They felt deeply
betrayed. No doubt most of the people in Iraq felt the same way. After a betrayal like that, the deepest desire of
every Iraqi would be to find some way to slit an American throat. Instead of liberating, Americans occupied and
plundered. They might as well have been Nazis.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Osama vs Oswald

Compare Osama bin Laden and Lee Harvey Oswald:

Both allegedly committed a historic crime.

There was controversy about both questioning whether they could have committed the crime without inside
help.

The evidence for why we figure these two were the culprits was kept secret.

Both were assassinated before they could be interrogated or testify.

The government ordered the assassinations of both men, presumably to shut them up.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Our Atrocities

It never ceases to amaze me how Americans, Canadians and the British go on and on about the terrible things the
Germans secretly did 77 years
or 102 years
ago, but completely excuse and ignore atrocities far worse that they openly do themselves now. What is even worse,
the berate the German civilians for not protesting the secret atrocities when they don’t even protest the
blatant ones they commit themselves.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Outside Interference

The American military has announced it does not want any outside interference with the internal affairs of Iraq.
Oh really? Isn’t the American occupation of Iraq and appointing the provisional government outside interference?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Overkill

In the nuclear arms race, the Americans not only have insisted on having more destructive power than everyone
else put together, they have insisted on overkill, more than enough ability to wipe out all life on earth several
times over. This grossly excess capacity has no practical use as a deterrent and it greatly adds to the risk of
accidental or terrorist-induced nuclear war.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Overreacting to 9/11

The USA was so freaked by 9/11 that they created a giant bureaucracy that spent money
way out of proportion to the threat and crushed constitutional liberties. The deaths from obesity, tobacco or
illegal drugs are each thousands of times higher. However, those dangers are more familiar, hence less scary. The
skeptical would claim Americans were cynically stampeded into overreacting that by those who benefited from
it.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Overthrowing Democracies

America claims its goal is to spread democracy to the world. Yet what do they actually do? They overthrew
democracies in Iran, Brazil, Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, Nicaragua, Haiti, Venezuela… and installed brutal
dictatorships. They propped up dictators in Iraq, Indonesia, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia… So excuse me if
I splutter when you tell me Bush wants democracy in Iraq. He wants what America always wants — puppet control
of Iraq’s resources through a dictatorship.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Pacification of the Vikings

The Viking were some of the most warlike people in history, yet their descendants are among the most peaceful.
How could that be?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Paranoia Inducer

Imagine a weapon that made people become paranoid and kill each other. From where I stand, someone has already
unleashed one such weapon on the USA.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Pat Tillman

The Pat Tillman scandal is important only in that it reminds the public that the essential nature of militaries
is lying. Whether he was killed by Americans or the resistance is irrelevant because he was a war criminal who had
committed a capital crime, namely aiding and abetting an aggressive (first strike) war.
Fate sentenced him somewhat ahead of his fellows.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Patching Up Serial Killers

What would you think of a guy who specialised only in patching up serial killers then released them into the
world to resume their killing sprees? That is exactly what army medics do.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Patience in Afghanistan

American and Canadian generals have called for patience in Afghanistan. The war has
already gone on for 15 years, 2 months and 2 days. Hundreds of
billions have been spent pounding the country to rubble and killing millions of children. And the opposition to the
invasion is as strong as ever. The Afghans resist the Americans with the same dogged determination and suicidal
sacrifice as they did the brutal Russians. WWI
took only 4 years, 3 months and 14 days
and WWII
took only 5 years, 11 months and 14 days
to defeat a much better armed and much more dangerous foe. Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9/11. Bush said the culprits were Saudis. There is no pressing need to occupy Afghanistan. The
invasion has been idiotic from day one. Pride, corruption and resource theft are the main motives to persist. It is
time to leave the Afghans in peace. They are no more danger to the USA than they were to Russia.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Patient Revenge

Muslims are much more patient about getting revenge than we North Americans are. Americans committed an
unforgivable crime on Afghanistan and Iraq. The revenge for it may come even 100 years
from now. I would not be surprised if a decade or so from now vets of Afghanistan and Iraq will start to come down
with mysterious diseases and cancers that rot the face. Americans are a boastful people, which tends to make them
underestimate their enemies. Over time, the general public will find out the perverted things American soldiers
were doing, they will become like lepers. They won’t be able to deny to themselves what they did. Confronting
it will drive many of them mad via drugs and alcohol.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Pavlovian Conditioning

One of the dirtiest tricks the military use is an old Pavolvian device. They show footage of
WWII
heroism, then immediately show footage of illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The mind unconsciously transfers
the glory of defending the homeland to the modern illegal wars even though they are wars of aggression and resource
theft, not defence.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Paying Ransom

If you pay ransom to terrorists, you are encouraging them to kidnap more people. Further, you are funding
terrorists. That makes you a terrorist too. This why Canada never pays ransom, and prosecutes people who do,
confiscating their funds and their businesses. It is tempting to violate the law in your particular case, but in
the big picture, you are making things much, much worse for others.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Peace Candidate?

Obama campaigned as a peace candidate. Why then the surge the troops in Afghanistan? Why is the USA, despite
being unable to afford two wars, despite there being no military threat from either Afghanistan or Iraq, still
occupying Afghanistan and Iraq? Ego and pride. Obama does not want to be perceived as losing a war. So he is
willing to sacrifice tens of thousands of people on both sides of the conflict, to create the illusion the USA was
able to beat these two tiny countries into abject submission. What he wants to do is impossible because, for
Muslims, this is a religious war — ejecting the great Satan. For them, resistance is more important than life
itself. They will not give up until every last one of them is killed and even then there are a billion Muslims from
all over the world to take up the struggle.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Peace Pipe

Consider the possibility that some wise North American shaman convinced his fellows that the only legitimate way
to smoke tobacco was in a peace pipe. He literally made warriors long for peace.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Pedophiles, Rapists and Serial Killers: Enlist!

If you are a closeted pedophile, rapist or serial killer and you not that particular about selecting your
victims, your best bet is joining the military. They will give you ample opportunity, camaraderie from others who
share your obsessions and shield you from prosecution from your crimes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Peer Pressure Atrocities

Just as peer pressure persuaded Germans to avoid noticing the atrocities of the Nazis, modern day Americans do
the same thing to avoid noticing their nation is the #1 terrorist nation on earth and
that American soldiers are guilty of a capital war crimes, namely first strike attacks on other nations.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Pending Landslide

There is a massive landslide pending in the Canary Islands. The next time the volcano Cumbre Vieja blows, it
will trigger the landslide. It will create a 91.44 metres(100 yards)
tsunami that will obliterate the eastern seaboard of the USA, the Caribbean, parts of North Africa and Western
Europe. I think somebody should ensure it is impossible for terrorists to trigger the landslide. Its destruction
would make 9/11 look insignificant.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Pentagon Lies

The Pentagon makes the preposterous claim it has killed only about 2000 people in
Afghanistan. Let’s conservatively say they spent $300 billion on the war. That
means they spent $150,000 killing each person. Instead of killing them you could send
them on extended holiday on the Riviera for those kind of bucks. This does not make sense. The Pentagon also claim
3190NATO
casualties. NATO
has a infinitely larger budget, more advanced arms, high tech armour and drones to kill without possibility of
retaliation. How could NATO
possibly be sustaining more casualties than the Afghans?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

People I Could Do Without

I am not a Christian, so I can’t very well pray that Jehovah vaporise the following people, however, I
think it would be Good Thing™ if they disappeared:

People who spread lies about climate change.

Soldiers who participate in aggressive wars, or who kill or torture civilians, especially children.

Dictators

People who profit from the pollution of the air, soil, rivers or oceans.

People who try to force their religious beliefs (beliefs for which there is no evidence) on others.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

People Who Favour Kid Killing

I get messages from Americans from time to time who threaten to kill me or wish some horrible death on me
because I disapprove of soldiers killing kids and torturing people. This implies they are strongly in favour of
killing kids and torturing those who are no threat to the USA. But why? They sometimes express racist hatreds, but
those they hate they have never even seen. How is it possible to hate so strongly? I am flattered that they imagine
my disapproval will successfully interfere with their sadistic pleasures and that they so desperately crave my
approval for their filthy pleasures that I refuse to grant.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Pernicious Addiction

When a people become so addicted to oil that they are willing to butcher and torture tens of thousands of
children to get it, you realise we are dealing with an addiction even more pernicious than heroin.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Petrodollar Wars

One of the reasons the USA is eager to find an excuse to annihilate Iran is that Iran has been accepting Euros
in payment for oil. Given that Iran’s customers include Europe, Russia and China why shouldn’t Iran
accept Euros, rubles and Renminbi? It could be the beginning of the end of the massive exchange commissions the US
gets from having the world’s oil transactions transacted in US dollars. No longer, when the US prints money,
would it effectively be able to tax (through inflation) all foreign countries that hold American petrodollars.
Without massive foreign global petrodollar holdings, the value of the US dollar would collapse. Recall the
Ambassador Glaspie incident when in 1990 Bush-41 tricked Saddam Hussein into giving the
USA a respectable excuse to invade shortly after Iraq started accepting Euros for oil.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Phase Out Remembrance Day

I would like to see Remembrance day gradually phased out. It glorifies war. It justifies war. It perpetuates
hoary attitudes from the days of the British Empire. We dig up and rehash old hatreds with people who are now our
friends. It is time to bury these hoary ways of thinking. What makes it worse is the vets of Viet Nam, Afghanistan
and Iraq piggy back on the honour. They did absolutely nothing to defend their countries. They were sadists who
enjoyed raping, torturing and killing children.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Phasing out Remembrance Day

I think it is time to start phasing out Remembrance day. Why?

Every year it dredges up old hatreds of our friends Germany, Japan and to some extent, Italy. It needlessly
rubs salt in old wounds. This is insulting to them.

It glorifies and justifies war.

Veterans of Viet Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq are piggy backing on Remembrance Day. None of these soldiers
defended their country. They were motivated by adventure, money or a sadistic desire to torture, rape and kill
children, especially non-Christian children. They do not deserve the honour of being including with the vets of
WWI
and WWII.

It is rare to find anyone alive today who participated in WWII
much less WWI. You don’t even find anyone who knew someone
who did. What we are doing is like ritually mourning the dead of the War of 1812. It is
time to let go.

The red poppy has become an empty ritual of political correctness and conformity. People are pressured into
wearing red poppies.

The Royal Canadian Legion has used their legal muscle to ban the white poppy, an anti war symbol, a symbol of
mourning for all victims of war, including those we killed. They have also banned the aboriginal
moose hide memorial.

Any but pro-war views are censored on the grounds of disrespect or bad taste.

It is maudlin.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Philippines

In 1900, America and Spain had a war. The USA won and took over the Spanish colony of
the Philippines. The Philippines petitioned President McKinley for independence. Instead, he invaded in order to
make the Philippinos submit to being an American colony. He send in 20,000 troops. The
Philippinos killed an American soldier. The Americans retaliated with a war crime by executing a village of
1000 people including the women and children. McKinley then send another 20,000 troops, then another 20,000. This pattern is similar to later
invasions of Nicaragua, Grenada, Afghanistan and Iraq.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Picketing Soldier Funerals

Soldiers killed in action in Afghanistan and Iraq were participating in illegal aggressive (first strive wars).
That is a capital international war crime. That makes them war criminals. It makes so sense to bury them with
honours. Americans with few exceptions refuse to hear that, however, everyone should be free to speak that
unpleasant truth. However, you have absolutely no business disrupting or picketing a private funeral ceremony. It
is as improper as barging into a home uninvited or interfering with euthanasia.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Picking on Someone Your Own Size

China threatened war with the USA. Oddly, part of me is eager to see it happen. The USA has been picking on
countries 1/10 its size or smaller for the last 60 years. I
would be nice to see it get a taste of what it has been dishing out.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Planning to Fail

Consensus holds that the main block to American success in Afghanistan is the weak, corrupt and unpopular Karzai
puppet government. Just how is several more years of killing Afghan children supposed to help that situation?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Playing Victim

The endless celebration of victimhood on 9/11 is downright pathological. It has lead
Americans to do malevolent things they would never normally do. In revenge for 9/11, they
attacked two nations who President George W. Bush admitted had nothing to do with 9/11.
The 9/11 attacks were over in hours. The revenge has gone on 24/7 for a 15 years and 2 months
with no end in sight involving attacks with 25 different types of aircraft. It is
madness.

You might argue that Americans support the Afghan war in solidarity with Muslim women. If that were true,
American would not be in last place in developed nations in terms of foreign aid. Americans are not generous
anywhere else, especially to Muslim women. Further, Americans would not have installed dictator Hamid Karzai
allowing him to enforce the same Shari’a
law as the Taliban. You might argue that Americans support the Iraq war to overthrow a dangerous dictator. But if
that were true, the Iraq war would have ended on 2003-12-13 when Saddam was captured.

What is even crazier is Americans are proud of the fact they used banned weapons, roasted alive
innocent Muslim children, routinely tortured detainees, violated the quaint Geneva
conventions… The endless craving for revenge, fueled by the cult of victimhood, has turned Americans into
monsters even worse than those who attacked on 9/11. The only way to atone for this
mega-crime and to ensure America never abuses its power that way again, would be too dissolve the union.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Poetic Justice

American women who went to Iraq and were raped by American soldiers really have no right to complain. They went
to Iraq to make lives extremely miserable for Iraqis, who had done nothing to them or America. It is poetic
justice.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Poetic Justice

Americans spread violence in the third world by selling heat-seeking missiles for profit. It is poetic justice
that these very missiles have found their way to the Taliban to shoot down American helicopters.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Poetic Justice

There is some cosmic justice is the way American soldiers contaminated themselves with carcinogenic dioxin when
they tried to defoliate Viet Nam with Agent Orange.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Poetic Justice for GWB

Poetic justice for George W. Bush might go something like this: He is kidnapped by an organisation dedicated to
revenge for the children killed or tortured in the Iraq war. Bush is tied naked to a chair and children come in
armed with very sharp potato peelers. Their job is to remove as much of his skin and scalp as they can. Then others
come in carrying misters which the mist his skin. The misters contain such things as sulfuric acid, napalm and
white phosphorus. They have fireplace lighters to set the napalm afire. Then another group come in and attach a
cluster bomb to each leg. All retreat behind a plexiglass shield to watch the surgical
removal of his legs. Then teens toss cinder blocks onto his body, taking care not to crush his skull. They bury him
in a pyramid of blocks perhaps 2 metres(6.56 ft)
tall. They leave him there in the dark, without food or water until he slowly dehydrates to death. His punishment
is but a minute fraction of the suffering he inflicted on the children of Iraq.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Pointless Shooting

If there is a fire in the kitchen, granted you have to do something, but rarely will shooting someone improve
matters.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Post the Score

The point of war is to kill and injure as many of the other side as possible. The score should be posted continuously as in any other testosterone-fueled contest. Maybe the folks
who do scoreboards for baseball games could invent some other statistics to continuously track to make the game
more interesting.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Postponing Withdrawal

One of the silliest arguments I have heard for prolonging the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is that people will
be killed in the chaos following a withdrawal. Of course, people will be killed. That became unavoidable on day one
of the war. Far more people die in war than in peace, especially a war that goes on and on year after year.
Postponing the end of a war won’t avoid that period of chaos. A protracted war will just kill more people on
all sides.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Potential Attack

The royal wedding fills me with dread. Prince Harry is a war criminal. He participated in the illegal first
strike war in Afghanistan. This is a capital crime, though it is unlikely a wealthy royal would ever be prosecuted.
I can envision the people of Afghanistan who have lost millions of sons and daughters to the US-British invasion
taking revenge on Britain by killing Prince Harry during the wedding festivities. It would be an absolutely
crushing blow.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Potential Terrorist Targets

The Homeland Security people designated 80,000 potential terrorist targets including a
tourist trap called Weeki Watchee Springs in Florida where women swim about in tanks dressed as mermaids.

Power Drill Torture

The image to the right is Michael York. In the 1968 film The Strange Affair,
criminals attacked P.C. Peter Strange, played by Michael York, by boring holes in his cheeks with a power
drill. Now we discover the Bush administration used power drills as an interrogation technique.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Power Leads to Torture

Dr. Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment should teach us never to be surprised when soldiers or
prison guards needlessly bully and torture. It requires constant supervision to prevent. But why do they do it? Why
do humans get such pleasure inflicting pain on the weak? It may be a way for a powerless individual to express
personal power. It may be an ancient hunting urge resurfacing.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Precise Bombs, Random Targets

Rumsfeld liked to brag about the pinpoint precision of American bombs. What he did not mention was most oft the
time the targets were picked pretty well randomly and if you hit a house anywhere in the third world, it will be
half full of children. In WWI10% of the casualties were civilians. In the Iraq war it is 90%, despite these so-called precision weapons.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Pretending Iraq Attacked America

American vets (funded by the oil industry) have an ad campaign where they whine that the resistance in Iraq now
have armour piercing weapons (where previously Americans could pick them off like fish in a barrel with almost no
fear of reprisal). They refer to the Iraq resistance as the enemy and terrorists as if they had attacked the USA. They call for the US military to protect America from Iraqis as if the Iraq resistance had attacked America. America attacked Iraq
unprovoked and sold off the spoils to American and European corporations. This is a big lie worthy of Joseph
Goebbels. The odd thing is all but the youngest Americans are fully aware it is a lie, yet pretend to believe it
anyway. This is unforgivable.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Pretending Not To Be Terrorists

I find it hard to believe Americans are sincere when they tell me Afghans who bomb American invading soldiers
are terrorists, but American soldiers invading Afghanistan who bomb women and children are not. It is merely
regrettable collateral damage. Surely some of them know the definition of terrorism: killing civilians with the
intent of changing their political affiliation.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Pretending Not To Provoke

Americans hamstring themselves by telling themselves downright silly stories about why their enemies attack
them. They refuse to even consider their own acts of provocation. Clinging to delusions about your enemies is no
way to defeat them.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Pretending to Support Evil

Every public figure gives lip service to the idea that the American solders in Afghanistan and
Iraq is bravely protecting American freedom, even those firmly opposed to the war. These are not all morons. Most
know perfectly well the USA was the aggressor in both wars. It is like the time of the Inquisition when people had
to publicly support the Christian lies just to stay alive.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Pretending to Virtue

Around 1700 leaders stopped glorifying war and pretended to long for peace, even
though war was thrust on them. This is a step forward. People pretending to a virtue is the first step toward
actualising it.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Pretending The Wars Are Legal

I have yet to find a single American soldier who acknowledges that it is a capital (i.e. hanging) international
war crime to aid and abet an aggressive war, namely one where your country strikes first,
unprovoked. A few of them understand that it was illegal when Nazis did it, but for some reason they believe
Americans are exempt from the law. They tell me, further, that they don’t care if it is illegal because they
believe the US will protect them from any possible prosecution. Someone should remind them that is precisely what
Nazi soldiers thought too.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Pro-War Lunatics

Anti-war folk such as myself are just trying to stop the killing and suffering, especially the killing and
suffering of kids. Those who oppose us, for some reason, want more killing and suffering. The way I see it, they
have to be mentally unbalanced. They often threaten to kill us, even though we are not interfering with their
murders, other than trying to prick their consciences.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Problem With Being a General

Since the days of swords, generals have three problems:

Convincing soldiers to risk their lives to kill.

Convincing soldiers to kill people they have no personal grudge against.

Keeping soldiers in top physical shape ready for battle.

Technology has come to the rescue.

Spear: gives the soldier a little distance.

Arrow: gives the soldier quite a bit of distance. He might not even see the person he kills.

Rifle: gives the soldier even more distance. Can shoot from cover.

Explosives: kills several a people at once. Soldier does not have to select a particular victim.

Dropping bombs: great safety. Victims look like ants. No great strength is needed, though you don’t
want grossly obese soldiers since they are hard to fit in aircraft and they require extra fuel.

The military has successfully erased conscience as an inhibiting factor to improper violence. The result is
mayhem is spiraling upwards, even in supposed peacetime, without limit. It is only a matter of time until this same
violence by drone is directed against one’s own countrymen. It is also only a matter of time until
America’s adversaries use low-cost evolutions of the drone in retaliation.

I can just see the egg on the face of the drone unit when their computer is hacked and the lard asses end up
killing themselves.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Problems With Drones

There are four problems with drones.

They make war cheap and safe. This lowers the bar to war. There was no strong reason for either the Afghan
and Iraq wars. With the drone tool, America can attack any country it has a minor difference with, or threaten to
attack.

To the soldier, this is just a video game. He can murder without so much as his
heartbeat increasing. This lowers the bar to improper killing, e.g. assassinating other world leaders.

In war, each side is to some extent restrained by the threat of retaliation from the other side for
particularly egregious attacks. Drones take away that brake to war.

Any weapons technology you use or your enemies, they will eventually adapt and use against you.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Profitless War

The USA cannot profit from plundering Afghanistan any more than New Jersey could profit from conquering North
Dakota.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Profitless War

With politicians screaming about government waste, you think they would be quite annoyed at investing a trillion
dollars in a war without a decent financial return. Viet Nam had the world’s largest deposit of tungsten, a
metal used for making incandescent light bulb filaments and super-hard steel. Iraq had the second largest reserves
of oil, now all auctioned off to western oil companies. Afghanistan had the right of way needed for a major Unocal
oil pipeline. So perhaps the wars were not as altruistic an investment in freedom as
claimed. The government may not have reaped the benefits, but the corporations who owned the politicians did.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Promoting Christianity

Even though it is unconstitutional, the US military promotes Christianity in its combat troops. Why? Devout
Christians believe that they cannot really die. This makes them braver and greater risk takers. Further, since they
believe they cannot really kill victims, they are not as reluctant to kill, especially civilians and children. They
believe their victims will go instantly to heaven.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Promoting Evil

Republicans promote war, theft of other nations’ natural resources, torture, abrogation of civil
liberties, use of banned weapons, letting people without sufficient funds for medical care die, persecuting gays,
ensuring the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, permitting corporations to lie to and harm their customers,
the replacement of democracy by corporatocracy or theocracy… This is not a political party; it is a demonic
cult.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Promoting Nuclear Proliferation

Bush promised to annihilate North Korea and Iran in his axis of evil speech. What else but nukes could deter the
USA?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Pronunciation Camps

It is interesting how speech patterns divide the USA into political groups. For example, pro-war people
pronounce Iraq as eyerak. People opposed to the war pronounce it
eer-rak. Similarly Italian as eye’talian by imperialists or
ih-tal’ian for internationalists.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Propaganda Barrage

It pretty obvious there is a propaganda barrage to sell war with Libya, Syria and Iran. I don’t know how
the USA plans to benefit from such wars. The one thing I can be sure of, the real motive has nothing to do with
lifting oppression and standard of living. The Republicans will not even sacrifice for Americans, much less
non-white people on the other side of the globe.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Propaganda Exception

Soldiers murder children and shoot dogs by the tens of thousands. Then they film a tear-jerker documentary about
taking one Afghan or Iraqi child to hospital in the USA for some expensive operation or go to great lengths to film
bringing back one dog to the USA. This is hypocrisy raised to the Monsieur Creosote level.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Proportional Effort

Harper spent $350 million attacking Libya, which was no threat at all to Canada.
He spend $30 million on ebola, which potentially could wipe out 50% of Canadians.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Propping Up Dictators

Other than invading two small countries unprovoked and killing and torturing, waging war by treating the Geneva
conventions as quaint, the most shameful thing about being an American is knowing that
your country supports dictators who enslave others for America’s financial well being. The hypocrisy would be
like acid corroding your heart. How could you possibly love your country?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Prosecute All War Criminals

We will know we are making progress when war criminals from the winning side are also prosecuted.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Prosecuting War Criminals

I am pleased that prosecutions against Jack Straw for rendition and torture are proceeding. Even if it does not
lead to Dick Cheney facing trial for the same crimes, it will make Mr. Cheney suffer with dread.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Prosecuting War Criminals

In Germany, men in their late 80s who so much as swept a broom at one of Hitler’s
death camps are being prosecuted as war criminals. By the Nuremberg principles, aiding and abetting an aggressive (first strike) war is a capital crime.

In Canada and USA, soldiers who kill children by the thousands in aggressive wars, are
fêted as heroes. By international law, they too are war criminals, guilty of a capital (hanging)
offence.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Protecting Freedom?

In the USA, people often claim that American soldiers in Afghanistan were protecting American freedoms. If that
were true, would not Afghanistan have attacked America first, rather than the reverse? Wouldn’t you have
heard reports of engagements with al Qaeda rather than the Taliban. The Taliban were running the government of
Afghanistan as a Muslim theocracy, minding their own business, when the US attacked them. They had nothing to do
with 9/11. Remember, Bush said bin Laden, a Saudi with Saudi cohorts, did it. The Afghans
speak Pashto and Farsi. The Saudis speak Arabic. It is ignorant to pretend they are the same people. It is like
confusing Spaniards with Russians.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Protection

A modern government protects itself from nationals of countries it has attacked, ecoterrorists, anti-military
saboteurs, whistle-blowers etc. by a number of means:

tapping telephones.

paid informants.

tracking the flow of money and cash.

tapping Internet communications

terror: e.g. torture, ignoring legal rights, isolation.

All these methods are designed to catch people who work in groups. They are impotent against the lone wolf who
refuses to share any of his plans or thoughts with anyone. He must amass his weapons by theft so there is no record
of their acquisition. The American penchant for ensuring every home is equipped with weapons of massive destruction
works in his favour.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

PTSD

According to the
CBC Ideas Program25% of US vets get PTSD and cannot work for the rest of their lives. They live on disability pension. This
costs the country $6 billion a year. This suggests the USA should be less eager to
leap into wars that are not necessary to defend the homeland.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

PTSD

It is a good thing that the wives are getting so much publicity about the hell it is to care for a husband with
PTSD. The husbands are crazy with
paranoia, fear and jealousy. It may discourage young women from marrying soldiers. It may discourage young sadists
from enlisting for the sheer joy of killing.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Punish Soldiers

Torturing children and killing them in extremely painful ways such as with rape, napalm, white phosphorus and
cluster bombs have become standard tools of war. In my view, any soldier who commits these war crimes deserves a
punishment more cruel than anyone can imagine and this includes all American soldiers who committed these crimes or
aided and abetted them.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Punishing Innocent Citizens

One of the reasons I despise the USA is the way the will punish or kill the citizens of Cuba or the citizens of
Iraq, etc. in the name of helping them because they have a dispute with their leaders. The leaders are not in the
least inconvenienced by the attacks. The people have done nothing to deserve this abuse.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Punishing Soldiers

I sometimes wonder what would be a suitable punishment for soldiering. I mused that soldiers should be tortured
in the various ways they tortured others, then die in the slowest most painful way they killed their victims. I
thought it would be fun if suddenly soldiers found themselves naked, without weapons, shelter, food or equipment of
any kind. They would be completely at the mercy of the people they had been tormenting/protecting.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Purple Heart

The purple heart is a booby prize. The goal of combat is injure or kill the other guy, not yourself. Logically
soldiers should get the medal for every consecutive year they manage without injury, like an
AA (Alcoholics Anonymous)
years of sobriety lapel pin.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Purpose of the Afghan War

If the true purpose of the Afghan war were to capture bin Laden, the occupation should have ended a few months
after the invasion once it was clear bin Laden was not there. But the occupation continued unabated since
2001-10-07. Since then, the heroin trade has ballooned from negligible to #1 in the world, with $1 trillion a year in sales. Now, plans are being
made to exploit Afghanistan’s four trillion dollars worth of minerals, especially lithium, needed for high
performance batteries. It did not even end after bin Laden was assassinated in Pakistan. What does that tell you
about the real purpose of the war?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Purpose of Air Shows

The purpose of an air show is twofold: to impress and cow the populace with the power of the military machines
and secondly to camouflage the true purpose of these expensive machines, namely to burn the skin off the backs of
children in the Middle East.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Purpose of the Iraq War

If the true purpose of the Iraq war were WMD
s, the occupation should have ended a few months after the invasion on 2003-03-22 once
the inspectors were certain there were no WMDs. It
didn’t. Obama announced the war was winding down on the same day all of Iraq’s oil resources were
auctioned off to American and European oil companies. What does that tell you about the real purpose of the
war?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Purpose of Nukes

If you trigger a global nuclear war, no matter what the circumstances, you will be worse off. So why bother
stockpiling them? As a deterrent? Everybody else also knows you would be worse of if you trigger a global nuclear
war. So you are not fooling anyone.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Purpose of Remembrance Day

I get angry with the Remembrance Day
day poppies and the endless lugubrious TV commercials glorifying soldiers. What are doing is Pavlovian
conditioning. They are trying to transfer the worship of WWI
and WWII
vets to the war criminals of today involved in the illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The motivations of
today’s soldiers are quite different from yesteryear. Today’s soldiers are mostly would be serial
killers, bigots, sadists, rapists and child molesters who have calculated they can get away with their crimes and
get paid for it if they just enlist.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Purpose of Secrecy

Government secrecy ostensibly is to keep enemies from learning things that would make their attacks more
effective. However, in practice, secrecy is mostly to lie to the people to hide evil government/military behaviour.
There are more whistleblowers than you would imagine. Many wait to see if some other person makes the sacrifice. If
so, they don’t need to act. They only need to act if no one else has. Consider that soldiers are often
willing to lose their lives for no purpose at all — e.g. in a war where their country was not even attacked.
So it is no surprise that whistleblowers are willing to sacrifice their lives to stop a war or some other extremely
wrong-headed policy.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Purpose of Torture

The purpose of torture is not to gain information but rather to cow the population. It is thus a form of
terrorism, one practised by the USA.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Putting Up With Americans

Imagine a gang of thugs invaded your home and occupied it for over a decade. They raped your daughters and sons.
They shot your pets for amusement. They randomly detained your relatives and tortured them. They defiled the
symbols of your religion. They deliberately ran over your children with trucks. They held sidewalk sales to sell
off everything you owned of value. They doused you in radioactive, caustic and burning chemicals. Perhaps most
galling was they claimed they did these things for your benefit and complained that you were not
more grateful. When your grandson tried to resist, they took him away, never to be seen again, calling him a
criminal and terrorist. That is what the Afghans and Iraqis have to put up with every day.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Questionable Recruits

You really have to wonder about the motives of someone who tells you they are willing to endure extreme danger
and hardship for a chance to butcher children, in self defense of course, on the other
side of the world.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Quiet Protest

If you lived in Nazi Germany, you could protest your country invading its neighbours by refusing to do business
with any corporation that offered discounts to SS officers. Similarly, in the USA you can protest by refusing to do
business with any corporation than offers special rates to people in the armed services or that produced
commercials glorifying those war criminals who participate in your country’s illegal wars.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Racist Cartoons

Every once in a while, the Saturday morning cartoons will air a Popeye or Bugs Bunny cartoon from the
WWII
era. These are embarrassingly racist, referring to the Japanese as Japs or Nips, portrayed like little rats with
huge teeth and squinting eyes. This might be forgiven since Japan attacked the USA unprovoked. However, Americans
do the same thing today with the nations they attacked unprovoked. They call the Taliban and the
Iraqi resistance terrorists, extremists and insurgents. They blanket the Internet with bigoted and uninformed cracks about Islam. Ignorant
Americans pass on urban myths about Islam and almost no one has the balls to counter the disinformation.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Racist Revenge

Millions of ignorant Americans claim that in revenge for the deaths of 3500 Americans
on 9/11, they have the right to invade, occupy, torture, incarcerate, rape, plunder,
burn, poison, bomb and kill hundreds of thousands of Afghan and Iraqi men, women and children. Setting aside how
out-of-proportion that response is, recall that President Bush said that Osama bin Laden (a Saudi) and a gang of
hijackers (Saudi) pulled it off. According to president Bush, there were no, nada, zero Afghans or
Iraqis involved. Racism makes many Americans conflate all brown-skinned people and all Muslims together for group
punishment. America’s unprovoked attacks are even more shameful than lynching a random black person for an
unsolved crime. Both wars are as illegal as Hitler’s invasion of Poland. This makes anyone aiding or abetting
those wars guilty of a capital crime. It is not just me saying this. All the secretaries-general of the
UN, who ought to know have said so as has the lead Nuremberg prosecutor for the
Einsatgruppen prosecution. In theory, every American in the military could hang. That will not happen but it does
not change the fact they are all openly guilty of a hanging offence and should be treated with contempt.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Racist Underestimation

One of the reasons both the Afghans and the Iraqis have managed to fight the USA to a stalemate with almost no
budget and a small fraction of the population is American racism. Americans underestimate their opponents over and
over. A recent example is the way Afghans have hacked the video broadcasts of the predator drones with
$26.00 USD
software. Americans did not take even the most basic precautions because they were sure all the Afghans were
technically illiterate.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Radicalisation

The Canadian government, fearing domestic terrorism, has expressed alarm about radicalisation, Canadian citizens turning against Canada. The #1 cause of radicalisation is learning
details about Canada’s (and America’s) illegal invasions in the middle east and the atrocities.
Canada’s primary approach to dealing with this is trying to convince Canadians these actions never happened
or to claim that they were justified. However, with the Internet, anyone who is curious can hear the point of view
of any party. The secondary approach at control is to harass, jail or torture those who point out Canada’s
bad behaviour. To me, the most effective approach would be to avoid illegal invasions and committing atrocities in
the first place, in other words, behave as we publicly claim to.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Radicalisation

The USA and Britain are attempting to stop the radicalisation of their own Muslim citizens. If they were
serious, they would stop killing Muslim children and stop stealing Muslim oil. Even if they did, past atrocities
will be long remembered.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Ramifications of Supporting the Troops

If you support the troops then you support what the troops do, namely kill people to
steal their natural resources. Americans never think this through.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Random Killing

I can understand it when wives kill their husbands who have beat them and abused their children. I can
understand it when people whose families have been tortured and killed by soldiers go on a suicide mission to take
revenge on their tormentors. What makes no sense is when a terrorist or soldier kills random civilians who had
nothing whatsoever to do with his grievance. The terrorist mindlessly lumps everyone of the same religion,
nationality or race into the same category. There is no true revenge, just a revenge spiral fueled by harming
innocents.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Random Violence

It was always obvious to me that random violence against random victims, such as Americans bombing houses in
Afghanistan and Iraq was pointless and self-defeating. But I have wondered what the effect of a more directed
violence would be, e.g. targeting only those who order deaths, who shape pro-war opinions, who profit from war or
environmental degradation. The Taliban seem to be experimenting with this approach targeting corrupt and turncoat
politicians. Americans tend to assume the Taliban are stupid foolish people, but that is obviously not true, since
they have managed to hold the Americans and cohorts with their unlimited war budget at bay for a decade. War is a
like a magic trick. The soldiers are a distraction to make those attacked mistake who is really attacking
them.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Ranking Malice

If you made a list of the attacks on civilians in the USA, Afghanistan and Iraq over the last decade and ordered
them by severity, irrespective of who committed them: USA, Canada, Britain, Iraqis, Taliban, Al Qaeda etc. where
would the Boston Marathon bombing fit in?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Rape

In a war, women and children are at risk of rape both from invading and defending soldiers. They need lethal
force to protect themselves.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Rape and War

In every war, soldiers rape, gang rape and stab young girls to death when they have had their fill. It is one of
the unwritten appeals of enlisting. How else can you commit a pedophilic rape/murder and get a medal for it?

The usual pattern is to capture a girl 10 to 13 years old (or
failing that a teenage boy), draw lots on who goes first, gang rape, then torture the girl to death.

Why not just hire a prostitute? I speculate, by picking such young victims, they are assuring they are unlikely
to carry an STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease). By killing them, the soldiers are assuring any young
girls they encounter are virgins. By torturing her, they are just extending their pleasure. After all, why did they
enlist if not to hurt people. Japanese soldiers who raped 20,000 girls at the fall of
Nanking in 1937 explained they were simply bored. They expressed no guilt or regret. It
is a feature of every war. Check Google images, with safe mode off, for

Rape and War

It is amazing how many people refuse to acknowledge that rape is an integral part of war, including ones waged
by the USA. Consider:

Young horny men have no other sexual outlet than each other which is highly frowned on.

The soldiers are trained to disdain the people they kill to make it easy to kill them. That same attitude
makes it easy to rape them.

In war, there are almost never any legal consequences for rape, even pedophilic rape.

The women are terrified of the soldiers and meekly comply.

Read your history. Rape is considered one of the spoils of war.

Soldiers are paid hit men. They enjoy violence, struggle, fighting, bullying, threatening and killing. Rape
is part of that constellation of behaviours.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Rape Is Normal For Soldiers

David Russell Williams (born:1963-03-07 age:53)
is a convicted murderer, rapist and former Colonel in the Canadian Forces. The armed forces try to pretend that his
behaviour was atypical and have disowned him. Don’t be silly. Raping, torturing, murdering and bullying are
the norm for the Canadian armed forces once they get to Afghanistan. Williams just jumped the gun a bit because he
got promoted and stuck in a desk job commanding the Trenton base.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Rational Kid Reaction

TV news loves to do stories where a soldier returns unannounced from Iraq or Afghanistan to surprise his child.
One of these days some child is going to react rationally to his father’s return after abandoning the child
for years to go hunting kids on the other side of the globe and scream at being grabbed by a strange
psychopath.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Rational Suicide Attacks

Suicide attacks are a rational strategy against American soldiers because these soldiers are so well protected,
trained and equipped, that every one taken out of action will save hundreds of lives. There is nothing more immoral
about a suicide attack than an attack where the attacker survives. We award bravery medals to those who sacrifice
their lives in suicidally dangerous attacks, yet when our enemies do it, we pretend they are crazed and
cowardly.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Rationalisation for Afghanistan

Bush proclaimed the right to invade Afghanistan because he thought bin Laden was hiding there. He never
presented his evidence to the public or a consenting legal opinion. It turned out bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan.
The USA kept fighting the Taliban even after bin Laden was dead. If the point of the war was to assassinate bin
Laden, why not stop when the mission was accomplished? Hint: maybe bin Laden was not what the war was really
about.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Reading as Antidote to War

The more people read, the less keen they will be on war. This is because they get used to looking at the world
through other people’s eyes. They come to value other people as complex beings, much like themselves. They
are thus more accurate at understanding others’s motives. War requires adopting a childish cartoon-like
simplification of the so-called enemy.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Reap The Whirlwind

Hosea 8:7For they have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind: Bush illegally attacked
and occupied both Afghanistan and Iraq and confiscated their oil and minerals. Americans
naïvely
presumed there would be no retaliation. Their sense of entitlement is absurd.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Recruiter Pimps

Recruiters are to the military as pimps are to prostitutes. They bully and lie to bring in new gullible players
to a filthy immoral activity.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Recruiting Trap

Any idiot who trusts the US military when he signs up for one year with the promise of special training and no
combat will usually get no such training, combat and can be locked into the military for an additional 26 years under the stop loss program.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Red Queen Arms Race

In an arms race, after a while both sides will likely have roughly the same advantage they had at the start. The
weapons and defences will be more sophisticated. All that will have changed is the extra cost to both sides of
maintaining the balance. Nobody wins but the arms manufacturers. An arms race usually ends in a war or bankruptcy
of one or both parties.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Reduced But Not Ended

Obama ordered 80,000 troops removed from Iraq and 60,000 to
stay. That is about 57% withdrawn. That is an encouraging move, but in no way signals the
end of hostilities.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Refighting the Korean War

The Americans fought the Chinese to a stalemate in Korea. Later the Chinese/Viet Namese defeated them in Viet
Nam. How would they do today? China has acquired massive manufacturing capability. The USA has shed its factories.
The USA is $14 trillion. The Chinese own much of that debt. The American success in
WWII
came because Roosevelt was able to rapidly commandeer America’s manufacturing industries for the war effort.
The USA can’t even prevail in wars against unfunded and unarmed resistance such as in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Americans have a bloated opinion of their military might. They are in a position much like Britain in its sunset
years, dreaming of empires long gone.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Refraining from Terrorism Benefits

Note that countries, such as Switzerland, that do not commit atrocities or acts of terrorism (i.e. civilians
killing civilians, or armies killing civilians) are very rarely attacked themselves. Countries that routinely
commit atrocities, such as the USA, Russia or Israel, are constantly under attack. If these countries seriously
wanted to deter terrorist attacks against themselves, the most effective way to do it would be to forgo terrorist
attacks against others. Terrorism invites terrorism in a revenge spiral. The fools imagine they can stop terrorism
by committing ever more outrageous terrorist attacks. That sort of rogue behaviour just makes it worse.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Refusal to Prosecute

Every western soldier who served in Afghanistan or Iraq committed a capital war crime, namely aiding and
abetting an aggressive (first strike war). Besides killing people who attack US soldiers, the United States goes
after them with the criminal justice system, with all the civil rights checks and balances turned off. This is odd,
like prosecuting someone who murdered an inmate on death row.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Refusing to Arrest Bush

George W. Bush visited Canada on 2011-10. Even though Harper was legally required to
arrest him as a war criminal, Harper refused to do so.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Regime Change

Regime change by force works only when the new regime is clearly better than the old. That is not true in
Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai is the biggest heroin dealer on the planet. He is corrupt to the core. Why did the USA
back such a loser crook? He was ex-Unocal and the Americans wanted a royalty free pipeline route for Unocal. He was
pro-heroin and has $1 trillion a year in sales to spread around to his friends.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Regret is No Excuse

When a terrorist blows up a subway station, we do not in the least excuse him if he claims to regret the deaths
of the children. He knew full well how many kids he would kill. In like manner, when an American military man drops
bombs on houses, no matter how much he may regret killing the 50% of the occupants who
are children, he is still a terrorist and still a murderer of innocents and still a war criminal. He is guilty of a
capital crime and should be treated as anyone else who brazenly committed a capital crime even if he escapes
prosecution.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Relative Evil

Is there any significant difference in evil between killing 6 million people of the
same religion, 6 million people of the same nationality or 6
million people of random religions and nationalities?

Is there any significant difference in evil between killing 6 million people by gas in
a concentration camp, by dropping a nuke on them, by dropping conventional bombs on them or by shooting them?

Is there any significant difference in evil between killing 6 million combatants,
civilian women, civilian men, children or seniors?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Religious Assassins

What sort of things might an assassin consider?

How important is it that my target die?

What are the odds my target will indeed die?

What are the odds I will spend the rest of my life in prison?

What are the odds I will be killed?

An assassin has no qualms if either he thinks his target is worthless or, oddly, if it is very significant.

Consider a Muslim suicide bomber. His targets are random anonymous civilians, including children. He will almost
certainly be killed, blown to pieces. Religion has convinced the assassin that it is overwhelmingly important these
people be killed, that the creator of the universe all but commands it and will reward overwhelmingly.

Consider a Christian drone pilot. He is given co-ordinates of a house containing Muslims. He directs a drone
attack on the house, killing all its occupants including children. His religion convinces him his targets are mere
cockroaches. His own safety is assured. He takes no risk so requires no convincing the kill is necessary.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Relishing Mindless Conquest

I find it deeply disturbing that the vast majority of Americans have no shame at all that they attacked Viet
Nam, Afghanistan, Iraq… unprovoked, slaughtered civilians and plundered. Alexander the Great was mad,
sadistic and unbelievably brutal. He is the most revered of all monarchs. Perhaps this relishing mindless conquest
is just human nature.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Reluctance to Prosecute

The reason American, Canadian and British leaders are so reluctant to prosecute war crimes is they realise they
too are guilty of them. The reason Germans are less reluctant is they want to hold others to the same standard they
were held at the end of WWII, even before war crimes were officially
illegal.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Remembrance Day

My parents, who lived through WWII, told me that the whole point of
Remembrance Day
was to remind everyone just how horrible war is and that we must do whatever it takes to avoid repeating the
folly.

However, unprincipled people like Prime Minister Harper, have twisted its purpose 180
degrees. He exploits it to glorify war and to celebrate hoary victories. His wants Canadians to permit him to
divert billions of dollars to his backers for inappropriate or useless military hardware and illegal foreign wars.
He hopes a general reverence for war will help him do that.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day was originally for the vets of the first and second world wars. It has since been improperly
extended to the vets of the Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Why improperly?

All countries that belong to the UN
signed a treaty. They agreed to avoid aggressive (first strike) war. They agreed that
participating in such a war in any way (even peeling potatoes) was a capital war crime. They agreed to hand over
suspected war criminals of any nationality for prosecution at the World Court in the Hague in the Netherlands.
Every one of Hitler’s men hanged at the end of WWII was convicted of
participating in an aggressive war. That was the only charge ever used. How do I know
this? One of the prosecutors, Benjamin Ferencz (still alive), was a friend of a friend.

The United States reneged on the treaty. Like a drug warlord, the USA claims it does not recognise the authority
of the world court. It says it will protect American war criminals from prosecution.

If you participate in an aggressive war, you are a war criminal. It does not matter what your nationality is.
Americans, Canadians and Brits can all be war criminals. If does not matter if your country sanctions the
aggressive war, you are still an international war criminal. It does not matter if you are never
convicted. You are still a war criminal. Someone who robs banks is a bank robber whether or not he is caught,
whether or not the Mafia protects him.

In debates with American soldiers who participated one or more of the aggressive wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan,
and Iraq, they claimed they were innocent because their government would protect them from prosecution. Some of
them were aware Dr. Kissinger avoids going to Europe to avoid prosecution. In theory they could be arrested too. In
practice they would probably be left alone, because they are not big enough fish. But that does not change the fact
they are war criminals guilty of a capital (death penalty) crime. Just because a child molester priest is protected
from prosecution by the church does not mean what he did was OK.

It is thus improper to honour war criminals, (aka vets of the Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq wars) convicted or
not, on Remembrance day. Further, modern vets did not fight honorably. They used banned weapons. They used torture.
They targeted children. They laughed at the Geneva conventions. They deserve extreme dishonour. Legally they
deserve the death penalty. If you disagree, at least admit you are a scofflaw.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Remembrance Day = Glorify War Day

My least favourite day of the year is Remembrance Day. For a month prior, Canadians go teary eyed over soldiers
who killed and tortured children in the illegal aggressive Afghan war. They are all heroes who served their country.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Remembrance Day Speech

When I was 15, Mr. MacKenzie, the high school principal, asked me to deliver a speech
for Remembrance Day to the at the school assembly. The text was a revolting maudlin document. It had been read
verbatim every year for decades. I did not want to do this, but back then, there was no way to refuse the
principal. He told me, Whatever you do, don’t lose this speech. It is the only
copy. I smiled inwardly. I delivered the speech as commanded, but somehow mislaid the paper, saving
subsequent generations of students from being subjected to it. You too can protest in your own quiet way.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Remote Control Warfare

Modern warfare is executed largely by remote control. Most of the Al Qaeda leaders
were killed with Predator drones. Snipers can kill from a safe distance of 3 km(1.86 miles). Soldiers are protected by kevlar and tootle about in armoured vehicles. And even when
an American soldier is injured, modern field medicine does miracles to keep him alive, even when he is
brain-damaged or missing body parts. The net result is a much greater percentage of soldiers are coming back alive.
And they are coming back much more psychologically damaged, maimed, violent and dangerous than when they left.

In centuries past, hot-blooded teens ran off to war and quickly removed themselves from the gene pool before
they could cause too much trouble for their societies. Those that came back were usually largely undamaged. Now
soldiers are largely coming back as both a burden to care for physically and psychologically and a source of
violence. War is losing its primary benefit.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Reneging on Treaties

The USA has reputation for reneging on treaties whenever it is to its advantage. They reneged on almost every
treaty they made with the native Americans. They renege on the UN
treaty every day. They renege on the NAFTA (North America Free Trade Agreement)
treaty with Canada.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Republican Candidates

I can see rivals like China and ISIS
rubbing their hands in glee looking at the crop of superstitious and stupid Republican presidential candidates. All
of them are in favour of the dumbing down of America.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Republican Terrorists

Even with only control of congress, the Republicans were able to destroy the nation’s credit rating, thus
in the long term costing it additional billions in interest charges and they were able to prolong the recession by
blocking all attempts to create jobs. Al Qaeda in its wildest dreams could not have done that much damage. If the
Republicans win the presidency, they will be able to finish the job as Jeb Bush bragged they would in his
1995 essay in Imprimis Magazine.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Repugnant Drones

There is something unusually repugnant about drones, where obese teenagers, pizza in hand, in the windowless
basement of the CIA
building in Langley Virginia play a video game whose side effect is killing families on the other side of the
planet. It conjures up the decadence of Roman emperors pleasuring themselves anally with slaves as they idly
watched Christians torn apart by lions. One of the goals of warfare is to use overwhelming weaponry that lets your
fighters be 100% safe, while your opponents have no defence. Drones are an extension of
high altitude bombing keeping your killers safe from retaliation. What get sacrificed is precision. Nearly always
more bystanders are killed than the ostensible targets. Bombing and the use of drones reflect a racist disdain for
non-combatants. Many would consider their use cowardly. The disdain for civilians is not new. Harry Truman dropped
the A bomb on the most civilian of targets in Japan in WWII, just to demonstrate his
ruthlessness. My main concern with drones is too much power inevitably leads to corruption. Obama can have anyone
he wants on earth killed by a drone, even John Boehner. That is too much power for a single human to command. At
the very least, control of drones should be taken back from the secrecy of the CIA
and put under military command.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Respect for Killers

A Mafia hitman is more worthy of respect than a US soldier. How so? Both kill anyone their employer requests, in
return for money, however, a Mafia hitman usually kills adult gangsters where a US soldier kills men, women and
children equally, none of who were any threat to people living in the USA. Mafia hitmen usually kill cleanly and
quickly. US soldiers use all manner of banned weapons that effectively torture to death.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Results of the Afghan War

The United States has been butchering Afghans for 15 years, 2 months and 2 days. What has been the result?

Afghanistan has gone from exporting near zero to a trillion dollars of heroin a year — the
world’s biggest producer. This flood of cheap heroin has created many new addicts, including elementary
school children who are now criminals eroding the social order.

The entire Muslim world now sees the USA as the Great Satan out to destroy Islam.

The atrocities have recruited tens of thousands of terrorists all over the world.

The taxpayers of the USA are stuck with the $10 billion a month bill. Borrowing
to pay that bill has ballooned the national debt so large it can never be paid off. America is doomed to
bankruptcy.

Afghanistan is still ruled by Shari’a
religious law — that the mandates beating women for uncovering their faces.

Hamid Karzai, the US puppet dictator, is the biggest drug lord on the planet and Americans forced him on the
Afghan people, deposing a theocracy with majority popular support.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Retaliation Spiral

When country attacks another, it obvious that the aggressor is the bad guy (unless the aggressor is your own
country). But in a civil war, assignment of virtue is not so clear. Did the government unduly oppress the people,
or are rebels fueled by loyalty to only a small group? Oddly, the newspapers and TV are never in doubt. For them,
it is always 100% clear. It seems to me, in most wars, civil or international, both side
engage in a spiral of retaliation until both are behaving abominably.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Revenge

If somebody bombs your country, kills a million of your people, mostly kids, uses banned weapons, tortures your
people, occupies your country for over a decade, desecrates your holiest religious places and steals nearly all
your natural resources, you don’t have to be Muslim, a religious extremist or a terrorist, to swear eternal
revenge. If the invaders had bullied, raped and killed your family, you would happily sacrifice your life to kill
half a dozen of them or anyone who had collaborated with them.

This is the normal human reaction. Americans like to pretend the Middle Eastern desire for
revenge and the willingness to die in the attempt is something unfathomable because they are deeply in denial about
their own war crimes that triggered this extreme desire for revenge.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Revenge of the Drones

Whatever the Americans do with drones will eventually be done to them. This includes autonomous drones that
don’t need an on-ground pilot. Combine drone technology with computer printing of objects and you could have
a 13-year old hacker mounting a successful attack on the Pentagon.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Revenge for War Crimes

The United States has dug itself into quite a hole. It has illegally attacked, unprovoked, three Muslim
countries, Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. It has arrogantly ignored the Geneva conventions terming them
quaint. It has used banned weapons, biological warfare and torture. It has killed
millions of civilians, mostly children. It stole all of Iraq’s oil and auctioned it off to European and
American oil companies. It preparing to steal Afghanistan’s lithium treasure. This is monstrously bad
behaviour. The entire Muslim world is quietly biding its time to take revenge when the financial and military power
of the USA has weakened. How is the USA to avoid taking it on the chin to pay for these crimes? I can only think of
one way — massive reparations.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Revenge Madness

Revenge is one of the craziest human activities. I heard an African guy interviewed on
CBC
Radio who sought out an Arab the exact shade of the man who murdered his family to torture to death. Of course, his
victim had absolutely nothing to do with the original murder. I consider the African stark raving bonkers. Had
someone decided to torture him because he was the exact same shade as Robert Mugabe, he would deeply understand his
madness.

If you must go for personal revenge, go after the culprit. Failing that, go after those who commanded him to
commit his crime. Failing that, go after someone in the same criminal gang or army committing similar crimes. It is
just crazy to go after someone in the same religion, unless the clergy of the religion commanded the crime and your
scapegoat cheerlead the crime. It is plain wrong to go after civilians, especially children. They could not
possibly be implicated in the original crime.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Revenge on the Innocent

The most despicable thing about terrorists is that they take revenge on people who had nothing whatever to do
with the grievance. The Americans are by far the biggest terrorists in the world, in that they kill the most
civilians. They excuse themselves, on the grounds that they wear uniforms and drop bombs from the air when they
kill non-combatants and that they claim they regret killing children as a side effect of warfare. They are still
terrorists. The definition of terrorism is killing civilians in an attempt to influence they political views.
American terrorism lowers the bar and helps other terrorists excuse themselves. It is much like chlorine by one
combatant in. Don’t excused all types of poison gas by all combatants.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Revenge Spiral

Revenge allows a war to continue forever. Once a war gets started, the aggressor forgets history and justifies
further atrocity simply because the defender resisted him. American soldiers take this a step further. When they
invade, they call it self defence if the country they are invading offers any
resistance.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Ritual Clothing

There is a primitive tribe in the Americas that has an odd custom. The elders hand out special ritual garments
to selected lay members of the tribe, usually from the lower castes. Wearing this clothing bestows almost complete
ritual immunity to all taboos. The wearers may steal, rape, murder… with impunity. In turn the wearer of one
of these garments agrees to unquestioningly do anything one of the elders wants, most commonly dispatching rivals
or killing for entertainment, or sometimes S&M-tinged sexual favours. This primitive tribe live to this day in
the USA and they call the ritual clothing a military uniform.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Roots of the Iraq War

In 1998 Dick Cheney and his buddies at PNAC (Project for the New American Century)
wrote Bill Clinton asking him to invade Iraq because it had a significant amount of the earth’s supply of
oil. So it seems plausible that when Cheney became VP (Vice President), he would want to invade Iraq for the same reason.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Running Backwards

Obama negotiated a SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
treaty to reduce the number of nukes from 2500 to 1000. The
senate immediately increased the nuke budget by 10% per year.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Rôle of Sadism

Bush and Cheney ordered torture, not to get information, but because they received pleasure from watching the
videos. Nearly everyone has forgotten that Bush stonewalled Judge Hellerstein when he subpoenaed Bush’s child
rape and torture videos. Nearly everyone has forgotten Bush’s history of
personal sadism.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Saddam Excuse

Now that the Iraq war is winding down, Americans are excusing their slaughter by pointing out At least Saddam is gone. Wait one cotton pickin’ minute. Saddam offered to surrender and
abdicate even before the war started. George W. Bush turned him down and invaded anyway because he wanted the oil.
Saddam’s regime collapsed immediately, but the occupation continued unabated. Saddam was captured on
2003-12-14. Yet the occupation lasted another
7 years and 11 months. On the very day Obama announced troop withdrawals
from Iraq he also announced a giant sell off of Iraq’s oil reserves to American and European oil
corporations. Mission Accomplished. This suggests the war had absolutely nothing to do with Saddam, absolutely
nothing to do with self defence, bugger all to do with a desire for democracy in Iraq and everything to do with
stealing Iraq’s oil for a nation desperate for continued supplies so insanely addicted that it ignores the
climate change consequences. Americans are eager to put this all behind them, but they behaved so badly their deeds
will live in infamy so long as humans walk the earth. I hope with all my heart these war criminals face prosecution
and execution or life imprisonment, even if it takes another 60 years for justice

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Sadist Halloween

In a war, sadists lose their fear and reveal their sick fantasies. They are emboldened to bullying others into
realising them. The kind of man who openly creates a bomb disguised as a toy is the same sort of puke who secretly
poisons kids’ candy on Halloween.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Sadistic Entertainment

The ancient Romans watched gladiators fight to the death and the slaughter of wild animals from all over the
known world. They considered it first class entertainment. Modern day Americans watch fights, rapes, torture,
murder, beheadings, animal killing… on TV, news, movies, YouTube and video games. They too consider it
entertainment. Even when simulated with special effects, the result is the same, increased callousness toward the
suffering of others and an addictive demand to view and participate in ever more sadistic violence.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Sadistic Soldiers

Americans assure me that American soldiers are perfect gentlemen and would never dream of abusing their power.
Yet everyone knows how young Americans behave in fraternities when given even a tiny bit of power over the new
pledges. Sadism boils up in even the most sanguine young man.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Sadists Should become Politicians

If you were a serial killer/sadist who desperately desired to slaughter and torture millions of people, what
would be your best strategy? Either go into politics or go into the military. I think we underestimate how much of
the cruelty and extent of war is caused by such people attaining power. Recall that Bush stonewalled Judge
Hellerstein’s subpoena for his child torture/rape videos prepared for him in Iraq.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Safe Wars

When the Vietnam war ended, the USA switched over to a mercenary army. There was no more conscription. To get
voluntary recruits, they had to make war much safer than ever before. Planes would fly at extreme altitudes where
they were safe from being shot down, and where they could not pick out targets properly. Soldiers in the country
just invaded were recruited for the boots on the ground work. Of course, their loyalty was suspect. Obama has
become enamoured of drones. Here the pilot is thousands of miles away ensconced safely in an American basement,
completely safe. The military is working on all kinds of robots to get American soldiers off the battlefield.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Saving the World

If there were a politician dedicated to starting a nuclear war, would it not be your moral duty to stop him,
even if it meant killing him? Many people think Germans were morally obligated to assassinate Hitler, and he did
not even start a nuclear war.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Schadenfreude

Americans turn everything into a contest, even inherently relaxing things like fishing, drinking, dancing,
camping and cooking. The appeal is that for every winner there are dozens of losers. The audience actively enjoys
focusing on the misery of each of the losers. They make it into an even bigger ritual than the winner.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Schindler’s Futility

If you save a hundred people, but as a result cause a different hundred people to die, you have not really
accomplished anything. Those you rescued will consider you a hero, but you have behaved no more morally than an
ancient deity who decided randomly who lives and who dies. Those who admire Schindler ignore this.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

School Bullies

When I was in elementary school and junior high, I was the kid most bullies picked on. I was tripped, punched,
held down, beaten up, set on fire, spat on, even sustained an attack on a pet turtle (the ultimate insult). They
always attacked in gangs surrounding me. I was not the only victim. There was a tall kid with a round head called
Slobbo. The epithet became so prevalent I was surprised when the teacher addressed him
by his actual name, Richard. The class bully Dennis, every time he passed, gave a sharp punch to Tony’s arm,
a skinny little kid who would wince in pain from the repeated bruising. I did not stand up for Slobbo/Richard or
Tony. I had enough grief to deal with already. Nobody else did either, presumably for similar reasons. Bullies like
this graduate to more sophisticated mayhem. They become soldiers. I am now taking the time to call them out for the
pieces of shit they are.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Second Tier Nuclear Nations

India tested an Agni V (god of fire) 5000 km radius nuclear
ICBM
on 2012-04-18, capable of reaching China. Israel can easily nuke its neighbours including
Iran. The United States can effortlessly land a nuke on any spot on the globe. These countries have all been sabre
rattling. They each could, on their own, start a nuclear war. Perhaps we should pay more attention to them than
North Korea and Iran, which still cannot. Even if our friends start the nuclear war, it is no more endurable for
us. There was once a time when the submarine, the machine gun, poison gas and white phosphorus were considered too
awful to even contemplate for use in war. It is thus only a matter of time until these nuclear nations become
completely comfortable with the idea of using nukes for first strike (or what they euphemistically call pre-emptive
strikes).

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Secret from Whom?

The CIA, since the Bush years, has been
secretly using Predator drones to assassinate people in Pakistan. This is surely no
secret for those being targeted or for the citizens of Pakistan. From whom is this information supposedly being
withheld? Obviously the citizen of the USA. How can that be justified? Claiming national security is obviously BS.
The intent is to manipulate public opinion about the Afghan and the Iraq war.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Selective Attention

Americans are quite concerned about civil rights abuses in Afghanistan and Iran, but tend to ignore them in
Myanmar and China. Why the difference? The US is currently occupying Afghanistan to gain control of its massive
lithium deposits. They are planning a war with Iran to gain control of its oil and uranium.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Selective Blindness

It is amusing how Americans are all fully aware of how illegal Japan’s strike on Pearl Harbour was ditto
Hitler’s invasion of Poland, but they pretend not to notice their first strike attacks such as Afghanistan
and Iraq are also illegal.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Self-deluding Americans

I can’t get over how self-deluding Americans are, including president Obama. They put 100% of the blame for self-radicalising terrorists on faulty mental
health. There is nothing in the least bit odd about striking back when an enemy kills millions of your countrymen
for no reason. The root problem is that America illegally invaded both Afghanistan and Iraq. Americans are
extremely fortunate there has been almost no retaliation. In contrast, look what happened to Germany and Japan when
they pulled the same filthy stunt.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Self-Extinguishing Terrorism

Self-Sustaining War

Wars are like fires. To ignite them, corporations and governments have to go to a lot of work, huffing and
puffing glorious rhetoric and propaganda. However, once the war is going, it becomes self sustaining. The
casualties create motivation for still more war to exact revenge for the casualties (which, of course, creates
still more casualties).

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Selfish Americans

Democrats want other countries to take America’s prisoners of war currently held at Gitmo off their hands
because keeping them in the USA would be too expensive and because of the danger of escapes. Why would it be any
less expensive or dangerous for other countries to keep them?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Selling War To Kids

So long as the USA remains embroiled in two illegal wars, the Captain America comic book character should be
considered a villain. It is pretty sick selling illegal wars to 5 year olds.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Send in the Drones

President Obama is justified in using drones to kill ISIS
leaders, but not Taliban ones. ISIS
attacked the USA, but the Taliban never did. The USA does not like the Taliban because they are too religiously
fundamentalist and because they oppose a US pipeline through their country, but that is no justification for
murder.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Sense of Entitlement in Warriors

People who wage war believe they are special, privileged. They think others ought to suffer so that they may
benefit. They don’t believe that all men are created equal. Capitalists think similarly.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Sequester Child Killers

A man who has killed, raped or tortured children, or who has aided and abetted such crimes, no matter what the
excuse, including being ordered to in the military, should never again be allowed near children, including his
own.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Serial Killer Baby Sitters

I find it bizarre that young mothers ecstatically welcome their serial child-killer soldier husbands home to
babysit their kids.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Serial Killer Lovers

There are a class of women who fall in love with serial killers. They do this to compensate for a lack of
personal power. Those that enjoy notoriety and scandal pick incarcerated serial killers. Those that wish to project
respectability select soldiers.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Serial Killer Marco Martinez

people/martinez
War criminal
Marine Sergeant Marco Martinez was a young gangster, but he felt that killing people in drive by shootings was not
fulfilling. So he enlisted in the US Navy to hunt and exterminate people on the other side of the world. The Navy
had designated official bad guys that it was ok to kill. He enthusiastically killed a large number of people who
were no threat to the USA. Granted, they were worthy, dangerous and exciting prey. The Navy awarded him the Navy Cross for his sadism and
NPR
glorified his murders in a radio broadcast.
Martinez is mildly retarded. Yet he has committed a capital crime. He belongs in jail, not
fêted
as a national hero.

Serial Killer Memorabilia

How do you win a medal? You insanely risk your life to kill large numbers of people. For bonus points, this act
should also protect some people out hunting humans. People collect them like other serial killer memorabilia.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Serial Killer Souvenirs

Serial killers (including soldiers) usually take souvenirs: jewelry, underwear, clothing, ears, penises, eyes,
fingers, toes… sometimes using them as masturbation aids. Animal killers take souvenirs too. They take the
entire carcass to professionals for long term preservation so they ran relive the kill over and over.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Serial Killers

The people most likely to commit multiple murders, murder, torture and rape children are those who sign up for
the military. In return for killing those the military orders killed, the military protects the soldiers from
prosecution for their crimes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Serial Killers Welcomed as Baby Sitters

If you knew a guy were a serial murderer of men, women and children and that he had dreamed of this occupation
since childhood, would you leave him alone with your kids? Many women even
marry
such men to help perpetuate their killer genes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Serves ’m Bloody Well Right

I have zero sympathy for vets suffering from alcoholism, PTSD
or suicidal depression. They knew these consequences were part of the price of a licence to kill. Nobody forced
them to go hunting children on the other side of the globe who were not the remotest threat.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Serving = Killing

Male politicians bragging about serving (killing innocent people) in illegal wars
such as Viet Nam, Afghanistan or Iraq is as sick as a female politician bragging about how many abortions she has
had.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Serving War Criminals

What kind of person dedicates their life to serving war criminals? Look at a doctor in a
VA (Volt-Amps)
hospital.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Serving Your Country

In what universe does participating in an illegal war to kill innocent men women and children one the other side
of the world who pose no threat count as serving your country? It counts as self-serving
sadism. It counts as serving Xe, (née Blackdown), Carlyle, Halliburton, BAE, Lockheed Martin, Boeing,
Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Raytheon, General Electric… but it does not serve the country. If that
is serving your country, then the Nazis who manned the gas ovens at Auschwitz also served their country. The lie has been repeated so often, most Americans believe it.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Sexual Assault And The Military

Sexual assault and the military go together like ham and eggs. Why? The military is extremely hierarchical.
People in it do what they are told, either by superior officers or by peers. Only people who hate autonomy and
personal responsibility can tolerate it.

The other problem is the military hires people to bully. The catch is, not only do they like to harm the
official enemy, or people who look like them, they like to bully each other.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Shame Of America

What do you call a nation that picks on smaller nations, uses its military might to extort valuable natural
resources from other nations, consumes far more than its fair share of the world’s resources, pollutes
mightily and produces little? I remember, America.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Shame For Canada’s Soldiers

Most people would be more upset if their son dismembered a child than if some stranger across down did it. For
the same reason, I get more upset when Canadian, American and British soldiers dismember children than when people
from countries I have never visited do it.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Shameless Americans

I am amazed that Americans don’t daily renounce their citizenship or commit suicide in shame at being
American. American soldiers committed a crime — murdering unarmed men, children and those to ran to their
aid, shooting at them on a Baghdad street from a helicopter, for sport. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was the
whistle-blower. Instead of praise, he has been locked in solitary confinement without trial ever since. Those who
had the temerity to call his release were harassed by the government. All manner of American politicians called for
his assassination for refusing to cover up for US military war crimes. These braindamaged twits equated
whistleblowing with treason and espionage. This is the sort of thing you would expect from Nazi Germany, not the
USA. What a stinking nation of cowards Americans are, standing idly by letting the criminals have their way!

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Sheeple Bill Moyers

The herd instinct is so powerful, that even Bill Moyers bought into the lie that Afghanistan attacked the USA
first, thus justifying the invasion. That would be like justifying invading and plundering Mexico’s or
Columbia’s natural resources because of the actions of drug smugglers. That Nazis were able to bamboozle
their entire population to follow a path of evil is more understandable.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Sheeplike Ignorance

Republican Christians ignore evidence of holes in the official 9/11 story. They ignore
holes in the bible story. They vote to preserve the privilege of the elites. Why? They have been trained since
birth to defer to authority even when authority is apparently incorrect.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Shooting To Help

It is most strange that ostensibly sane people claim that the best thing to do help a trouble spot on the globe
is to send in the military to shoot people at random and drop bombs on children. That makes so little sense, surely
they must have some ulterior motive.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Shooting In the Foot

As westerners go, I am relatively sympathetic to Muslim and Arab points of view. However, when
ISIS burns their Jordanian prisoner
alive in a cage, I thought, it would be a good thing if everyone in ISIS
were exterminated. I think this way fully aware that the USA routinely burns children alive by dumping white
phosphorus on them. When ISIS
theatrically beheads prisoners, I think, everyone in ISIS
deserves a similar death. I do this fully aware that the USA beheads and dismembers children with bombs by the
score. When Boko haram kidnaps and rapes children, I want them all shredded to pulp. I do this fully aware that
Canadian and US soldiers also rape children. All ISIS is doing
with its theatrical executions is convincing everyone in the west to fund their extinction.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Shrill Insults

When a marten raids a squirrel nest, the squirrels can do nothing but shriek insults. Americans treat the shrill
insults of their victims as serious threats that justify an initial attack. They are such Nazis, but have such a
high opinion of themselves they can’t see how badly they are behaving.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Shrinking the Military

In the middle ages, the soldiers conscripted to fight the invading Vikings, turned to personal thuggery, shaking
down peasants and working as muscle for castle owners to make the surrounding peasants pay tribute. The United
States will have a similar problem when they finally get around to cutting the size of the military.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Sick Rationalisation

Imagine a motorcycle gang beat you up every day of your life and stole whatever money you had. Then one day,
after about a decade, they got bored and stopped. Would you?

Run over to the motorcycle clubhouse and attack somebody at random to revive the fight?

Thank your lucky stars and hope they forget about you permanently.

Oddly, most Americans presume (1). They justify attacking and continuing attacking both Afghanistan and Iraq on
the grounds as soon as they stop attacking, the victims will attack the American homeland. This is such a sick
rationalisation for bullying.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Silence on Morality and Legality

American media will discuss whether the Afghan and Iraq wars can be won and whether they are worth the cost but
never if they are morally justified or legal.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Sins of the Fathers

To what extent is the current generation responsible for the crimes of their ancestors? Consider for example how
responsible are modern day Germans for the holocaust, or modern Israelis for the invasion of Palestine, or modern
day Americans for the genocide of the indigenous people of North America by the European invaders and settlers?

The descendants of the criminals are not responsible for the torture, rape and killing. They had nothing
whatsoever to do with it. However, a formal apology means a great deal to the descendants of the victims and costs
the descendants of the criminals nothing.

However, if proceeds of the crime greatly enriched the descendants of criminals and impoverished or harmed the
current day descendants of the victims, then at least token reparations are required.

In Canada, there are formal apologies every month for misbehaviour of ancestors and land claims settlements.
South Africa used the apology approach to defuse the hatreds built up over apartheid. Germans put plaques up all
over to apologise to Jews and some valuables have been returned, but Jews have not dared return. Israel flatly
refuses to even admit wrong doing, much less pay reparations. Perhaps it will take another century.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Sneaky Revenge

Bullies who attack other kids unprovoked, or steal their lunch money, should not be surprised if their victims
resort to sneaky revenge. The same is true of nations.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Snowbirds

The Snowbirds are a
Canadian Military aerobatics team. Their job to glamourise the military and seduce young people into enlisting for
the illegal Afghan war. I find that pimping morally reprehensible. Further, they do their dangerous aerobatics
swooping over cities, making an enormous noise terrifying the residents. An elderly lady ran from her house here in
Victoria. She was convinced she was being strafed as she had been in London in WWII. I had to calm her down. They have no business annoying, terrifying and endangering
private citizens. I hope the lot of them are killed in some spectacular collision into a remote mountainside.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Sold Soldiers

A sold-ier is someone who temporarily sells themselves into
slavery. They sell their conscience and even their soul. They are sold propaganda to make it
easier for them to kill those who were no threat to themselves or their families. I have noticed soldiers who write
me often spell their profession solid-er, an unconscious denial
of the shame of their chosen profession.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Soldier Baby Sitters

I find it so odd that American mothers would entrust their children to soldiers, knowing full well they have
butchered other people’s children.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Soldier Choice

Soldiers and criminals of all types often excuse their actions with the words, What choice
did I have? To anyone else, the bloody path they chose is unthinkable. To anyone else, they made the choice
for selfishness, greed and cruelty time after time until it lead them into a situation even they could not
stomach.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Soldier Clerks

According to a guy who disarms bombs for the US military, only one in twenty soldiers actually engages in
combat. Most cook food, do paperwork, maintain equipment… Compared with WWI
and WWII that is an amazingly high overhead. What then is
motivating soldiers to enlist? Presumably they expect something more exciting and bloodthirsty. They know perfectly
well playing support does not protect their country in the remotest way. They do have the right to rape and bully
without consequences. Perhaps it is just a job of last resort for losers.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Soldier Excuses

American and Canadian soldiers naïvely trust the government to inform them when they are being ordered to
commit international war crimes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Soldier Motive

A young soldier phoned who had never been deployed. He was so utterly clueless:

He believed that Iraq had no oil and never did.

He believed the bombing of the residential areas of Baghdad was motivated by a desire to save the lives of
children.

He understood that invading Afghanistan and Iraq were illegal, but being a criminal was the higher
morality.

He may seem too stupid to believe, but consider the astoundingly doltish results of the Jaywalking, quiz, Jay
Leno interviews with Americans in the street. This guy is probably a creationist. If he will believe that, he will
believe any crap.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Soldier Motives

When Canadian soldiers return from Afghanistan they often either attempt suicide or complete it. Everyone knows
that combat often leads to PTSD, brain damage and suicide.
Suicide is more common than death in combat. So the most important question is, why did these people enlist to go
to Afghanistan in the first place?

They were not conscripted. Of all possible things to do with their lives they voluntarily signed on as
soldiers, agreeing to kill whomever they were ordered to.

It was not to protect Canada. Canada attacked Afghanistan, not the reverse. Afghanistan was so impoverished,
that an attack on Canada would have been impossible.

It was not for the money. Military families often have to seek welfare.

It was not to help the people of Afghanistan. Canadians refuse to donate even pennies to help people in the
third world.

It was not for the travel to exotic places. Afghanistan is a hell hole.

What does that leave? They enjoy soldiering, namely bullying, killing, torturing and sometimes raping and
pillaging. When they get back they become terminally guilty and kill themselves. It a natural consequence. They
deserve the same mourning as other multiple killers.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Soldier Saints

Every time an American soldier is killed, his friends and family extol him as a saint. They assure us he was
kind, helpful — a total boy scout. They refuse to acknowledge that he chose as his profession killing
civilians in illegal wars on the other side of the world, who were no threat to him, him country or his family. It
is not as though he was a WWII
soldier, sacrificing his life to defend his country. Today’s soldiers are only one step above Blackwater
mercenaries in moral responsibility.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Soldier Saints

Every time a Canadian soldier is killed, his friends and family extol him as a saint. They assure us he was
kind, helpful — a total boy scout. They refuse to acknowledge that he chose as his profession killing
civilians in illegal wars on the other side of the world, who were no threat to him, him country or his family. It
is not as though he was a WWII
soldier, sacrificing his life to defend his country. Today’s soldiers are only one step above Blackwater
mercenaries in moral responsibility.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Soldier Serial Killers

Clifford Olson is BC’s most notorious serial killer. Over a year, he raped and murdered 11 children. However, he is an amateur compared with US soldiers/serial killers in Afghanistan and
Iraq. Some of them kill 100 children in a single afternoon.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Soldier Success

In a war, a soldier can be said to have succeeded if he manages to kill at least two soldiers before being
killed himself. (Actually, maiming them sufficiently so they can no longer participate in the war also counts.) In
a non-violent confrontation, a participant can be said to have succeeded if he, or his team, manages to persuade
even one person to give up his erroneous views.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Soldier Suicide

Today, way more US soldiers die from suicide than from combat. This was certainly not true in
WWII. People kill themselves because they are deeply ashamed. They believe they
don’t deserve to live. They believe they are so deeply flawed they don’t deserve love. These soldiers
know better than anyone the atrocities they committed in Afghanistan and Iraq. This suicidal guilt is the natural
consequence of committing atrocities. Nobody pushed the soldiers into it. They eagerly sought out the opportunities
for such sadistic mayhem. All Americans share in their guilt because they funded those two illegal wars against
countries who were no threat to the USA, ignoring the Geneva conventions, targeting civilians and using routine
torture and banned weapons. Afghanistan and Iraq’s only crimes were having oil and minerals under their
soil.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Soldier vs Mafioso

What’s the difference between a soldier and a member of the Mafia?

Soldiers have legal immunity.

The Mafia make more money.

Soldiers are more likely to rape.

The Mafia are more likely to extort.

Soldiers are more likely to kill women and children.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Soldierly Denial

In World War II, German, Japanese and Italian soldiers were fully enthusiastic about killing even though they
knew their countries had started the wars motivated by imperialistic expansion, in other words to steal the
resources of other countries. It is thus no surprise that modern American soldiers kill, rape and torture with the
same lack of guilt in their theft of Iraq’s oil (Auctioned off to American and European oil interests on same
day Obama announced the troop withdrawal).

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Soldiers are Motivated by Sadism

Americans feel great sympathy for the soldier who butchered 9 children and
7 civilians. Americans imagine the soldiers are doing some extremely onerous but
necessary job that often drives them insane. This is nonsense. Neither Afghanistan nor Iraq attacked the USA. The
wars are purely optional. Their purpose is control of crucial natural resources. The soldiers enlisted not to
defend the USA but for adventure and the sadistic pleasure of killing Muslims like fish in a barrel, using high
tech weapons, all with little personal danger. There is nothing remotely honourable about what the soldiers are
doing in Afghanistan and Iraq. Further, it is illegal.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Soldiers are Not Heroes

The fashion is to glorify soldiers as if they were heroic firefighters. But they are more like street gang
members. They kill, maim and torture without any inkling why such action might be necessary or pointless. Some
soldiers in WWII
fought both for and against Hitler. Soldiers fight because they like hurting other people. It is a relatively rare
when the fighting actually helps to defend their countries. The outrageous aggression and brutality of the American
soldiers is counterproductive. It is helping to fuel a word-wide hatred of America and a desire so see her humbled,
hardly a wise self-defence move.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Soldiers at Home

If you train a soldier to shoot a five year old without batting an eye, on the grounds the child might be
concealing a grenade, you have to expect him to be somewhat callous when he returns to family life. He will think
nothing of dashing his infant son against a wall or threatening his wife with a handgun if she fails to do the
dishes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Soldiers Deserve Contempt

CBCRadio likes to do pieces about
Canadian soldiers who joined the illegal invasion of Afghanistan, killed civilians and children, then developed
overwhelming guilt and other mental problems known as PTSD. The
CBC
feels pity for the soldiers and calls for increased compensation for these brave men who sacrificed their lives in
the defence of Canada. I disagree. Afghanistan never attacked or threatened Canada. These men were not motivated by
a desire to defend Canada but by blood lust, adventure and the joy of hurting others. PTSD
is a mild consequence for capital war crimes. These soldiers do not deserve our pity. Rather they deserve our
contempt.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Soldiers Never Stop to Think

I wonder if a soldier ever considers, even for a second, that, over his career, he created far
more pain for others than he feels when his family is killed in an accident or war.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Soldiers Not Even As Worthy As Suicide Bombers

I will never understand why American soldiers who close their eyes and drop bombs on random Iraqi homes filled
mostly with children feel morally superior to suicide bombers who look their victims in the eye and sacrifice their
own lives in order to commit their random murders.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Speaking Ill of the Dead

It is considered back luck to speak ill of the dead, but I will take the risk to spit on soldiers killed in
Afghanistan and Iraq who went half way round the world to hunt (and/or rape) children for sport. I only wish they
had been slowly tortured to death. I don’t hold soldiers who went to hunt/rape adults in much higher
regard.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Spit on Vets

Since German vets of WWII, American vets of the Viet Nam War, the Afghan war
and the Iraq war all fought in illegal first strike wars, violating the Geneva conventions, I don’t see why
any of them deserve respect, honour or any form of support. They are all war criminals. That they were just
following orders is no excuse.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Starting A War

The end of a war is always much more joyful than the start. There is also regret and shame. Why don’t
people remember this when there is still time to avoid a war?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Starting A War for Ratings

If an American president gets in political trouble, nothing helps his popularity like starting yet another war.
The American public fall for it every time. You’d think by now they would realise wars are extremely
expensive, mean higher taxes, bigger deficits, more debt, less government services and dead relatives. But the lure
of smashing in the teeth of some tiny foreign country really turns the American crank. Americans are positively
Roman in their attitude to war.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

State Sadism

Consider the problem of sadism. Most ethical systems would say it is inappropriate for a sadist to torture
someone to increase his pleasure, unless the person tortured is a consenting masochist. The US military has a quite
a different moral view. They recruit young sadists and say So long as you have the power to
inflict your will and restrict yourself to designated enemy men, women and children, have at it. These
enemies are not enemies in the usual sense of people who attack you. They would be better described as official
victims.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Steady Evolution of Weapons

Every generation invents weapons the previous considers too horrible. Those who create the weapons lie to
themselves that the horror will end war. Right now we are creating armies of robots of all sizes to overwhelm any
enemy/victim while we sit comfortably a continent a way and watch the slaughter on viewscreens. It is only a matter
of time until this escalation ends, not war, but the human species, after an unusually short reign on earth.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Stealth

The power of military propaganda was able to turn the word stealth from meaning sneaky
thievery into modern, fast and high tech.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Stench of Killers

There is a foul stench that emits from the people who disdainfully dismiss those who want peace or want to
protect the environment. They somehow imagine themselves superior for encouraging war and trashing the planet. They
do not even deserve a place on this planet. They are garbage.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Stigma

Americans are horrified hearing a story about someone who talked to an actual Islamic terrorist. Yet they think
nothing of a story about someone who talked to an American soldier who dropped bombs on tens of thousands of
children, killing far more people than the terrorist had.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Strange Reluctance

Western countries like the USA are perfectly happy to kill millions of soldiers and millions of civilians
including children, when none of these people had the remotest influence on foreign policy. In contrast they are
happy to tolerate an Assad, Gadafi, Mugabe, Kim Jong-Il, Idi Amin or Pol Pot for decades. The only exception was
Saddam Hussein, but killing him was merely a side effect of stealing Iraq’s oil.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Strangling ISIS

If you kill civilians in Syria, that gets the friends and relatives furious. That encourages them to sign up for
ISIS. That is not a good strategy for
strangling ISIS.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Success of 9/11

9/11 was the most successful terrorist attack of all time. It was not just the large
number of casualties, it was the novelty, the graphic images that were replayed over and over thousands of times
and the Bugs Bunny-like way the tiny band of terrorists armed only with box cutters allegedly outwitted the entire
US military. It was also complicated, inviting endless analysis and speculation. Blowing up a market full of
civilians, these days, barely makes the wire services. If you were a terrorist, what would you do for an encore? My
own guess is to piggyback on some other disaster waiting to happen. Examples:

Trigger the Yellowstone caldera supervolcano to blow with a small nuke, wiping out the entire USA.

Trigger the massive landslide poised in the Canary islands causing a tsunami that wipes out the entire east
coast of the USA.

Create a dozen simultaneous BP oil gushers. It could even be done without explosives. Just bribe/threaten BP
employees who have already proven to have no consciences.

Simultaneously blow up a number of oil refineries with SCUD missiles.

Block the tiny shipping channel down the middle of the Straits of Hormuz. This would cut off most of the US
oil supply.

Destroy some crucial part of an ancient sewer system, effectively removing sewer services from a major city.
It would help Americans understand what it was like for the Iraqis when Americans bombed to rubble all of
Iraq’s sewage systems, water treatment plants, power plants, hospitals and schools in the sanction bombings
leading up to the Iraq war. Between one and two million people died as a result, mostly of infectious diseases
like cholera from contaminated water.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Suicide

21 US military vets commit suicide every day. Why? It finally dawns on them that what
they did in combat was a war crime.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Suicide Attacks

We are lucky that terrorists prefer suicide attacks. If they did not, terrorists would become more successful
with each attack and they would teach young terrorists from their experience.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Suicide Killers

We have an inconsistent attitude toward suicide attacks:

We hold the Japanese Kamikaze bombers in awe.

People who died saving others in WWI
or WWII
are the highest heroes.

We hold the Palestinian bombers in contempt.

The suicide bombers of 9/11 required the destruction of two countries who had
nothing to do with the attacks as revenge.

We cheer the Syrian rebels who took out the defence minister.

We hold as heroic the various suicide attackers who attempted to kill Hitler.

We hold the Afghan bombers in contempt who took out NATO
troops.

It seems, in general, if our side does it, it is heroic. If the other side does it, it is wicked. The more
civilians are killed as a side effect, the more the more heinous we consider the crime. I see it as a sincere form
of killing. The suicide killer is saying, I am not killing you casually for no reason, out of
boredom because I was paid to… I believe that it is so necessary to kill you that I am willing to give my
life to put you out of commission.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Suicide Missions

Suicide missions are not the first choice to wage war. They are an act of desperation when other more effective
means of combat are impossible. If the Palestinians had tanks and an airforce, you think they would waste time with
suicide missions one shopping markets?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Suicide Voodoo

Americans have a strange belief that it is much more wicked to kill 40 people in a
suicide bomb attack than to drop a bomb on them from a plane (at least if the pilot is American). They consider the
first extremely wicked and the second perfectly acceptable. To the people blown up, it makes absolutely no
difference.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Suicide-Prone Vets

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is firing the counselors who look after returning Canadian vets from Afghanistan.
One of the counselors went on the CBC
and said that the counselors had to work full time to keep the vets from committing suicide. She was worried many
of them would kill themselves if the counseling stopped. Why are these vets so suicide prone? Well, why does anyone
commit suicide?

They may believe that there is no hope for happiness in the remainder of their lives. This might apply to
soldiers who lost their legs and genitals or those whose injuries made them hideous.

They may despise themselves and believe they do not deserve to live. They are terminally ashamed of what they
did or what they are.

But, you ask, soldiers did horrible things in WWII, such as dropping a nuke on
Hiroshima and fire bombing Tokyo. Why did they too not have such a high suicide rate?

Killing civilians has low military utility; it is just a distraction from the serious job of crippling the
enemy’s ability to wage war. However, WWII
soldiers convinced themselves any atrocity was justified since the Japanese started the fight. In contrast, the
Afghan vets had no such excuse for their atrocities. Afghanistan was no threat whatsoever to Canada. If you
doubt, ask yourself why is Canada withdrawing, not surrendering and why has no not one general fretted about how to defend Canada from
Afghanistan?

Because there was a draft in WWII, there no shortage of soldiers. They would be
rotated into combat and relatively quickly rotated back out, before they burned out. However, in the Afghan war,
there was no draft. A draft would have created public opposition to the war, so there was none. As a result,
there were nowhere near enough soldiers. Soldiers thus got almost no time off. Neither were they permitted to
retire even when they were completely burned out.

The quickest and least shameful way to commit suicide is to deliberately die in battle. This means the suicide
rate is under-reported.

I have no sympathy whatsoever for the vets. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. They knew perfectly well that the
war was first-strike and that first strike wars are illegal, making them guilty of a capital war crime. They had no
motive to go to Afghanistan except bullying, rape, killing and torture. In short, that had no motive but sadism.
Now they are feeling so guilty about what they did, they are killing themselves off. I say, let them. What they did
to others was far more cruel than what they are doing to themselves to atone. I’m with Harper. People who
commit capital crimes don’t deserve free counseling.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Suicide: the Leading Cause of Death

More soldiers died from suicide than died in combat during the Viet Nam War. You could look at it they died of
shame or despair. In WWI
and WWII
soldiers did some shameful things, like the firebombing of Dresden, or the nuking of Nagasaki, but they believed
the story of why those atrocities were necessary. In Viet Nam, they were not so naïve. The same applies even more so to the illegal Afghan and
Iraq wars where there was no threat to the Canadian/American homeland.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Suiciding Soldiers

A soldier who serves in Iraq is considerably more likely to commit suicide than be killed in action. This was in
no way true of WWII
vets. This means that the people who really know what happened in Iraq know it was intensely shameful.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Suitable Caretakers For Children

Would you let a woman who was sexually attracted to men who killed children near your kids? If not, why then do
you tolerate soldiers’ wives as caretakers and school teachers for your children?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Suitable Punishment for Cheney/Bush

There some crimes so egregious that execution or life in prison would be a gentle tap on the wrist. It is hard
to imagine a punishment serious enough for what Cheney and Bush did, perhaps something biblical like wiping out all
their descendants, siblings and their descendants.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Sun Tsu

2400 years ago in his book The Art Of War, Sun Tsu explained All war is deception. Despite this
ancient warning and despite militaries down the ages repeatedly getting caught deceiving both their enemies and
their own people, Americans are still shocked when they catch the military lying yet again.
Further, Americans are openly hostile to anyone who suggests the military may be deceiving the public on some
particular issue. The business of militaries is bloody, violent and brutal. The public would never approve if they
know what was really going on. So naturally the military lies. They believe these are necessary lies because they
believe the lay public are too squeamish to permit hideous but necessary deeds.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Supporting the Troops

When Americans say they support the troopsthat means they support the troops in what
they do, namely waging illegal aggressive wars, violating the Geneva conventions, using
banned weapons, targeting civilians and torturing P.O.W.s., hardly part of the American self-image. Claiming to
support the troops while simultaneously being opposed to the war is as silly as saying you support rapists, though
you are opposed to rape. Americans are so deeply in denial, including left wingers like Al Franken, that they
don’t even notice they are being ridiculous.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Surrendering Freedom

Consider that swimming pools, handguns and cars kill way way more people than terrorists. We need to get a grip and put the threat of terrorism in
perspective rather spending unlimited resources and giving up freedom (the main reason to fight
ISIS). Trump is a far bigger danger
to my freedom than ISIS is.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Sympathy For The Devil

Canadian security people shot Aaron Driver to death because to posted his plans to blow up a Toronto subway
station to support ISIS. I have some sympathy for Mr.
Driver. Canada, the USA, Britain and other western nations treated Afghanistan and Iraq abominably. They invaded
them illegally in first strikes. In some ways, they behaving worse than Hitler, namely using banned weapons
(cluster bombs, depleted uranium, white phosphorus, land mines…), targeting children and civilians,
violating international law and routinely torturing all detainees.

I could see why he would be angry. I could see why he thinks the west should pay for what they did. However, his
plan to blow up random civilians made utterly no sense. None of those people had anything to do with these war
crimes. You would think he would want to punish those responsible, for example, by pushing for war crimes
prosecutions.

Because Driver published his plans, it seems to me he did not plan to carry them though. He intended to be
dramatically stopped. This was theatre taken for terrorism.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Syria

Syria is a terrible mess. The following groups are trying to kill them off:

Assad regime

ISIS

Russians by dropping chemical weapon barrel bombs.

Americans by careless collateral damage

Assad has killed four times as many as ISIS. The
Americans consider Assad an ally because he is an enemy of ISIS.

The only option the Syrians have is to leave the country, there are so many of them, the world refuses to
absorb so many refugees.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Syria Options

Obama has 4 basic options to deal with Syria:

Do nothing. This is what Canada, Britain, Russia and China want to do. This option would be very difficult
for Obama’s machismo.

Do some token damage. The problem is Assad would just retaliate with more gas attacks. Since the security
council has vetoed military intervention, this and the following two options are illegal.

Wipe out Syria’s ability to produce or deliver poison gas. The problem is, releasing it will kill all
sorts of people as a side effect. Further, Assad could just go after his people with different types of
atrocity.

Wipe out Assad. This will create chaos. Assad has relatives just as sadistic as he is who will take
over.

This strikes me as a no-win situation. I personally find Assad an insufferable prick. I hope whatever happens
disables him from creating further suffering. All Obama can do is pick the least bad option, the option that kills
the fewest innocent people.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Syrian Civil War

The Syrian Civil War has killed about 300,000 people and created 3 million refugees. Bashar al-Assad is mostly responsible. This is 85 times
as much havoc as Osama bin Laden got up to. I think Assad deserves a Predator drone or a team of
SEALs coming through his bedroom window.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Syrian War

The Syrian War has dragged on and on. Even after it ends, not much will have changed. I suggest the
UN say to warring parties, You have six months to end your war by
violence or diplomacy. At the end of the six months, if the war has not ended, we will send predator drones after
the group leaders of each team until you are all dead. Time starts now.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Taliban Support

Obama’s plan to get the Afghans to take over the American war against the Taliban is as futile as Hitler
convincing the French to fight against the French resistance. Obama forgets that the Taliban have the support of
the Afghan majority. Without that support, the Taliban could not possibly have held the combined
might of the USA, Britain and Canada at bay. The Karzai puppet government is a gang of monumentally corrupt drug
and war lords. The Taliban, to our eyes, are completely unacceptable, but to the Afghans, Karzai is even more
so.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Targeting Children

Americans claim they never target civilians, that they just kill children rarely as collateral damage. I know this to be a lie because I saw them do it with my own eyes. Likely you saw
it too, but it did not register just what you were seeing. On 2003-03-20, the opening day
of the Iraq war, pretty well everyone was huddled around their TV sets watching live the invasion of Iraq. I was
watching with some ex-patriate Iraqis who were naïve
enough to think Bush was going to liberate Iraq. Instead we watched him bomb the residential neighbourhoods of
Baghdad. My companions screamed in terror as they watched their family and friends back home crushed to death in
the houses and apartments along familiar streets. They were crying and weeping inconsolably. They felt they had
been massively betrayed. Each time the Americans announced they had assassinated a resistance leader, they
announced they had simultaneously killed a number of children because of cowardly remote-control warfare they
indulge in. They knew that would happen. They must take responsibility for intending to kill the children.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Targeting Civilians

Targeting civilians started as the laziness of collateral damage (killing civilians as a side effect). It goes
back at least to WWII with the rocket bombing of London, the firebombing
of Dresden and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

In more recent times we have the US leveling of Fallujah and the attack on the MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières)
hospital and the ISIS
shooting down an airliner full of young Russian tourists. Each side justifies it because the other side did it
first. What they fail to consider is killing children and the elderly is a waste of munitions. It does nothing to
weaken the enemy’s ability to wage war.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Tears for American Nazis

Even Americans on the far left in American politics like Al Franken, Michael Moore and Rachel Maddow shed tears
(have to pretend to shed tears?) for American soldiers who died in Iraq. They hold that the soldiers have no
responsibility for their war crimes or their own deaths. The soldiers were good Nazis, just following orders. They
pretend the soldiers were not fully aware the USA attacked Iraq, not the reverse. They pretend the soldiers did not
know the aggressive (first strike) war was illegal and that aiding and abetting it made
them war criminals guilty of a capital crime. They pretend that the Nuremberg trials were a state secret. They
pretend the soldiers innocently thought they were defending the USA, even when the soldiers were fully aware all
the Iraqis had to defend themselves with were kitchen-made IEDs. To exculpate the beloved can-do-no-wrong must-support-at-all-costs troops, even Al
Franken, Michael Moore and Rachel Maddow go along, or pretend to go along, with the Bush’s big lie that the
Iraq war was to defend the USA rather than to steal oil despite all the evidence to the contrary that even they
personally uncovered.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Techno-War

The Chinese have been probing North American computers, learning how to take them over, shut them down or make
them self destruct like the attack on Iran’s centrifuges. How much bigger hint do you need that when China
goes to war with the USA it will do it by using its computers to shut down electric, water, traffic, air traffic
control and weapons systems. It strikes me as foolhardy to give a rival open access to that information when there
was never any effort to make those systems secure. The main deterrent for war is that the USA owes China so much
money.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Territoriality

Most animals will defend their territory to the death against intruders. In addition, they will take over
another’s territory if they can get away with it. Legality and morality are irrelevant. Humans usually behave
the same way. They are just acting out their gift of evolutionary programming. For example, consider how Jews
pushed Palestinians off their territory, and how Palestinians resisted with deadly force.

We humans are devising ever more lethal weapons. Using them to magnify territoriality will eventually drive us
extinct.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Terrorism

A terrorist attack with 100 casualties is considered a much bigger deal than a
military attack with 100 casualties. What is the difference?

If they kill 100 civilians, that is terrorism. If we do it, it is collateral
damage.

If they kill 100 civilians on our soil, that is an extreme threat. We do it, on
their soil, it does not count as reportable.

If they do it, they are presumed to be motivated like the berserkers of old. If we do it, we are presumed to
be motivated by calm, rational benevolence.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Terrorist Politicians

Terrorists throughout the world are cheering as American politicians do their work for them by bankrupting the
USA with endless, costly, pointless, illegal wars, destroying civil liberties as payoffs to corporations and
denying medical care to desperately ill US citizens.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Terrorist Virtues

You could rant for hours about how deluded and wicked suicide terrorists are, but there are three character
flaws you cannot accuse them of: cowardice, insincerity and greed.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Terrorist vs Auto Danger

There are under 1000 deaths a year world wide attributable to terrorists and
1,000,000 deaths attributable to vehicles. Yet the spending to stop terrorists dwarfs
that to make vehicles safer. An automobile is 1000 times more likely to kill you than a
terrorist, yet Americans fear terrorists far more than they do Hummers.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Terrorists Ask the Wrong Question

The terrorists asks himself, Will my violence hurt those who oppose my cause? He
fails to ask Will my violence promote my cause over the long run? or even more
important Is this the most effective way to use my energy to promote my cause?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Terrorists?

Media people pretend to be surprised when there is a terrorist attack. They imply What a
surprise! I can’t think of a single reason why anyone would attack us. They must be mad. However,
I can easily think of some reasons:

The US and Canada Illegally attacked and occupied Afghanistan for a decade and leveled it.

The US Illegally attacked and occupied Iraq for a decade and leveled it then sold off all its oil.

The US and Canada sided with Israel against the Palestinians, even though the Israelis were the aggressor and
set up an apartheid system.

This suggests a highly effective anti-terrorist strategy. Do not illegally invade other nations or support
nations that do. People have to be enraged before they will consider suicide attacks to get even token revenge. It
is not that much of a sacrifice for us to live up to our UN
treaty that says we may not attack other nations unless they attack us first.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Terrorists?

A team of 240 undercover police talked two heroin addicts into blowing up the BC
Legislature. The police came up with the plan, funded it, provided the T4 explosives, provided a safe house to
build the bombs and paid for travel. You really have to wonder who is more responsible for the crime.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Testosterone

Testosterone makes males fight, dominate and bully each other. It makes them take life-threatening risks. It
makes them abandon their mates to seek new ones. The levels of testosterone in human males were optimum for life as
a caveman, but might be considered poisonous for an officer in charge of a nuclear arsenal.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Theatre of War

On 2010-06-14, MSNBC TV news showed a firefight in Afghanistan between American
soldiers and the Afghan resistance. The American commander took time out during the battle to do an interview, with
the machine guns rattling in the background and two American soldiers hit as we watched. The term theatre of war takes on a new meaning.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

There is Nothing Immoral about Fighting Back

If you mug someone, steal everything he possesses, set his wife on fire, torture his son, blow up his parents or
rape his daughter and he fights back with all his effort to stop you, he is not a bad
guy Americans who support the Afghan and Iraq wars don’t understand this basic fact of morality.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

They Should Talk

Americans have such cheek for blaming the Taliban for blocking the peace process. The Americans were the ones
who illegally invaded and installed Hamid Karzai as puppet dictator. What the Americans really mean by rejecting peace is the Taliban refuse to unconditionally surrender and accept the incredibly
corrupt narcostate (Hillary Clinton’s assessment) government the Americans chose for them. The Afghans
further stubbornly refuse to hand over control of their natural resources, namely lithium, to the Americans. The
Americans have absolutely no moral right to even be in Afghanistan, much less kill people there. Logically, since
they are 100% in the wrong, they are the block to peace.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Thinking Too Highly of Oneself

I find it amazing that the majority of Americans will make excuses for killing children in pursuit of cheaper
oil, of allowing priests to molest children, for attacking other nations unprovoked, for laughing at the Geneva
conventions as quaint, for condemning fellow citizens to die because they could not
afford expensive medical treatments, for detaining and torturing children and teens en masse, for using demonically
cruel banned weapons such as white phosphorous and napalm on women and children. When I was younger, I thought only
Nazis or ancient Romans were brutal enough to behave that way. The strange thing is Americans don’t see
themselves as unusually barbaric. They imagine they are magnanimous and benign. Nazis, too, thought extremely
highly of themselves.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Thirsting

Even something as innocent sounding as thirsting, withholding water for a few days,
is unimaginably horrible. You long to die. Being torn apart by tigers would be preferable. I know from personal
experience. According to Frontline, Americans used this technique routinely on every detainee in
Iraq. Because so few people have ever experienced torture, it is easy for the exposed torturers to convince the
public they were merely causing extreme discomfort.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Threat of Hanging

American soldiers returning from Iraq face dangers even greater than they did in combat. Every last one of them
is an international war criminal, guilty of a capital (death penalty) crime, namely aiding and abetting an
aggressive (first strike) war. They are technically guilty even if they just peeled
potatoes in Iraq. Many of them violated the Geneva Conventions. Some of these Geneva violations are also capital
crimes. Others used illegal banned weapons such as DU, cluster bombs, napalm,
white phosphorus and land mines. The USA uses its financial and military power to scoff at the World Court.
However, the USA won’t won’t get away with this arrogance much longer. The USA won’t be the only
superpower much longer. China has already eclipsed the USA is energy production. Russia has cornered the market on
natural gas. The European Union is already more powerful than the USA by a number of measures. The USA is gripped
by a severe recession that is shaking it to the core. Countries that respect the world court are treaty bound to
arrest war criminals if they come onto their territory. American veterans might be wise to restrict foreign travel
for the rest of their lives. Recall that some Nazis were not brought to justice for their aggressive war crimes until they were in their nineties. All the Nazis hanged were charged with the
same crime, aiding and abetting an aggressive war.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Threats From US Soldiers

The depravity of US soldiers astounds me. Not only do they target children, they threaten to kill me if I
don’t pretend to approve.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Time to Bury The Hatchet

Dieppe was 74 years
ago. The Germans are now our friends. Yet we still celebrate the old fight with the partisan enthusiasm of soccer
hooligans. I think it is time to treat WWII
as a failure of all humanity to deal with a charismatic lunatic, not that different from several
current world leaders.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Timothy McVeigh, Pit Bull

The US government trained Timothy McVeigh in the art of mass murder in Desert Storm. This is a bit like buying a
vicious pit bull then being surprised when it turns on you.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Today’s Soldiers ≠ WWII Soldiers

Americans constantly glorify their soldiers and try to equate them to the soldiers who defended America in
WWII. There is no comparison. The soldiers of WWII
had no choice. They had to defend their country from attack. The American soldiers of today are much more akin to
the war-criminal soldiers of Germany and Japan who engaged in first strike imperial wars. They gladly chose to
butcher, torture and steal.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Toll Of War

We are bombarded every day with news of unspeakable cruelty. Here is an attempt to put it into perspective:

war casualty statistics

Conflict

Deaths

9/11

3,500

US soldiers killed in combat in Iraq

3,532

Syrian rebellion

12,000

Libyan rebellion

30,000

Darfur

300,000

Civilians killed in the Iraq war

1,455,590

So in numeric terms, it is no contest; the Americans are by far the biggest killers on the planet and that does
not even count Afghanistan.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Too Variable Skill

I refuse to believe the same people who masterminded 9/11 trained the shoe and
underpants bombers.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Top Seven Reasons the USA Should Invade Syria

2.5 billion barrels of oil are lying under the Syrian sand (no Iraq, but
still).

Syria has phosphates, chrome, manganese and iron.

Obama needs a distraction from the economy.

Contractors are getting antsy after the winddown of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Boston Marathon bombing gave Obama such a bump, he wants more Syrian terrorists.

Syrians want Americans to bomb their homes and kill their kids so they can be free (of them).

John McCain wants to invade to raise employment.

President Bashar al-Assad has weapons of mass destruction and Donald Rumsfeld knows exactly where they
are.

President Bashar al-Assad is a royal asshole. He deserves to die (though not all the Syrians along with
him).

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Torture

The ancient Mayans would pop the finger joints of captured kings, bind them into a ball and roll them down the
temple steps; the Nazis would work and starve Jews to death. The Americans specialise in killing and torturing
children, with cluster bombs, white phosphorus, land mines, bombs, bio warfare (including destroying water, sewage
and electric plants) and napalm. I find the war crimes of the Americans the most odious. It is one thing to exact
torment on your opponents and quite another on bystanders. Like the ancient Mayans, Americans don’t just
kill, the want the deaths to be as painful as possible.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Torture By Denying Water

Americans routinely tortured every detainee in Iraq by denying them water while forcing them to sit in the full
Iraqi sun. You can see if for yourself in the PBS Frontline documentary. If that has never been done to
you, you have utterly no idea how horrible it is. I would sooner be eaten alive by tigers than live through four
days of it again. The American military claim they tortured to extract information that would save American lives.
However, American military experts have said that torture is ineffective for this. The person being tortured just
says whatever he thinks his torturers want to hear. In the middle ages, the Inquisition discovered torture was
effective for making people confess to any conceivable crime no matter how far fetched. If Americans truly were
interested in extracting information, they would use brain scanning technology that makes it impossible to lie or
to refuse to answer. It requires no violence. The purpose of torture then is terror. In the war against terror, the
Americans have become terrorists themselves.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Torture Relativism

Nazis thought torture was OK, so long and Germans did it for the benefit of the Reich. Americans think torture
is OK so long as Americans do it and the victims are Muslim or brown skinned. It does not matter who does it. It is
still wrong.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Torture School

The United States openly operates a school for teaching torture techniques to right wing dictators. It is called
the School Of the Americas. The United States openly uses torture at Guantánamo
prison. We complain that the Germans did nothing about the concentration camps for Jews. The tortures conducted by
the Americans are even worse and openly acknowledged. Some day the world will look on today’s Americans with
even more contempt that we had for the sheep-like Germans under Hitler.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Torturers

I include as torturers:

Those who torture and those who order torture.

Those who kill or order kills with weapons designed to cause maximal pain rather than just kill the victim,
such as dousing in white phosphorus or wrapping in napalm.

I think the death penalty is appropriate for these people, not to punish them, but to be absolutely sure they
never reproduce. It may even be justified to kill their children (though not their wives) to eliminate the
possibility of any genes for that behaviour passing on. Vasectomy or castration is not sufficient in a world where
even two males can conceive.

If governments refuse to prosecute these people, then I think vigilante action is justified. There is no point
in punishing them with torture, just with death.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Torturers

What countries torture? USA under Bush, Iraq under Saddam, Chile under Pinochet, Zimbabwe under Mugabe, Uganda
under Idi Amin, Myanmar under Pol Pot, Germany under Hitler. What countries routinely torture all detainees? USA.
Not even Germany under Hitler did that.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Torturing Kids for Oil

Americans will never live down the shame that most of them went along with Bush killing and torturing kids to
browbeat their parents into handing over their oil.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Torturing Teens

Why do Americans think it is perfectly OK for them torture teenagers in dungeons for years on end, but it is
unspeakably evil for anyone else to do the same thing?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Toward Saner Terrorism

What sort of nincompoops sacrifice their lives just to blow up a group of random women buying produce? It is
utterly pointless. If someone wants to sacrifice their lives fighting evil, why not take some true bad guys out
with them, e.g. people who have ordered the butchery of tens of thousands of civilians or people who have poisoned
the planet in ways that will hurt millions or at least soldiers and support staff invading their country?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Training Children

Children rehearse adult rôle s. When I was a child, girls rehearsed child rearing and cooking. Boys
rehearsed driving trucks and flying airplanes. Both sexes rehearsed illegal business practices playing Monopoly.
Today video games allow children to rehearse killing without remorse or motive, rape, theft and torture. The
training works exceedingly well.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Training Psychos

Canadian Colonel Russell Williams confessed to 86 crimes including two murders and two
sexual assaults and photographed himself masturbating during them. What do you expect? The Canadian government
trained Colonel Williams to have no regard for human life or compassion. He needed this to wage war against people
who were no threat to Canada. It is only natural he would retain those same attitudes once he came home.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Training Sadists to Kill Children

Even the sadistic people who volunteer for the military don’t murder children easily. They need boot camp,
which uses many of the techniques of brainwashing, to condition them to do it on command without hesitation.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Traitors

It makes sense to have laws against saboteurs, those who pretend to be loyal citizens but interfere with the war
effort, other than by protest, but I think it should be perfectly legal to leave one’s country and join the
enemy, even ISIS. If you disagree, that means you
think it should have been illegal for Jews and gays to leave Nazi Germany and fight with the allies.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Treating Mexico Like Afghanistan

Surely by now Americans are sick to death of the consequences of drug smuggling from Mexico. The biggest Mexican
drug lord at the time of writing is Ismael Zambada García. Imagine if Obama said to Mexico, You have 48 hours to capture him and hand him over. Screw the extradition hearing. We are not prepared to
present no steekin’ evidence. The Mexicans would be aghast, scarcely able to believe their ears. They
might offer to let the America have a go at him, protesting What you are demanding is almost
impossible. García
is no ordinary criminal and he may well be hiding outside Mexico. Then Obama would invade and America would
occupy Mexico ever after and sell off all its resources, especially oil. I think you might find a 10,000 Americans who would protest Obama’s behaviour, even if just on the Tea Party
everything-Obama-does-is-wrong principle. Yet Bush did something even more illegal. He demanded
the same thing of Afghanistan, but was also unwilling to negotiate an extradition treaty first. Further, the USA
refused Afghanistan’s offer hold an ad hoc extradition hearing to present evidence. Further, the Afghans
could have correctly said, The American CIA
trained and funded Noriega, Saddam and bin Laden. They are your problem to put down, not ours. The only
American who dares to question this illegality is Noam Chomsky

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Treaty Breakers

Americans believe that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to them, even though they signed a treaty that trumps
the constitution saying they would abide by them. You might say then that Americans are a nation of outlaws.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Trial for bin Laden

Even though bin Laden was assassinated, there still should be a trial to reveal the evidence for and against
that he was behind 9/11. All we have is Bush’s word on it, which is worth nothing
since the Bush very rarely told the truth.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Truth in Advertising

Truth in advertising department. A TV US military recruiting ad shows a young man saying When I enlisted in the National Guard, I never thought I’d be saving lives. Presumably he
expected to be sent to Iraq to slaughter people.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Trying Gadafi

If Muammar Gadafi had been tried at the international court in the Hague, it would have brought us closer to the
day when American war criminals were also prosecuted.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Turn About is Fair Play

If Americans insist on routinely torturing every Muslim soldier and civilian they detain and detaining Muslims
indefinitely without charge or trial, Americans have no grounds to complain if Muslims throughout the world
eventually start doing the same thing back.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Twisted Values

Americans are truly weird. They pull back in horror when someone says nation
building but have not the tiniest twinge of conscience at bombing a defenseless country for a decade for no
apparent reason.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Two Filthy Facts About Soldiers

It is amazing how strenuously soldiers will deny two obvious facts:

Soldiers kill people for a living.

Soldiers enlist because they want to kill people.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Two Types Of Evil Nations

There are two kinds of evil nations, those who make lives miserable for their own citizens and those that make
misery for the citizens of other countries. The United States is the most evil nation in history of the second
type, simply because they are the most militarily and financially powerful nation of all time and because they have
chosen conspicuous consumption as the national virtue and unregulated capitalism as the state religion. The irony
is because of the power of propaganda, they see themselves as the greatest benefactors of all time.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Two-Faced Obama

Obama completely misrepresented himself in the presidential election. He billed himself as pro-peace. He claimed
to be for the little guy in battles with the insurance companies, but when he got into office:

He cut the Iraq war troop allotment in half, then doubled it for the Afghan war. The net result is no change
in involvement in illegal wars. He is as pro war as any Christian Republican.

He made it illegal not to buy a medical policy from one of these insurance company sharks.

He does not deserve a second term, but for the exact opposite reason the Republicans claim. We should have
expected this betrayal way back when we discovered who funded his presidential campaign.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Types of War

Some of the types of war:

defensive war: attacking a country that attacks you.

preemptive war: attacking a country you are a convinced will attack you any
minute.

preventive war: attacking and destroying a country you think might at some point in
the distant future become a rival.

aggressive war: attacking a country that did not attack you, presumably to steal
its resources and/or territory. All the Nazis hanged at the end of WWII
were charged with the same crime, namely aiding and abetting an aggressive war.

Any country that belongs to the UN
signed a treaty saying it would never resort to war, except defensive. Of course, the NATO
countries, especially the USA, do it all the time. Who is powerful enough to stop them? With the precedent set,
presumably so will China when they become the #1 superpower.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Tyrant Tactics

To make it easier for his minions to torment victims, a tyrant denies the victims sanitation, clean clothes, a
comb and a razor.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Unconscious Death Wish

Because of the atrocities of the Afghan and Iraq wars, America is the most hated country since Nazi Germany. How
do the Americans react? By killing themselves off by refusing themselves health care and by arming lunatics and
felons with the most advanced firearms.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Underestimating Victims

A tiny impoverished country, Afghanistan, was able to defeat the Russians and later the Americans partly because
the bigotry of the invaders lead them to underestimate the Afghans.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Underestimating your Enemy

Underestimating your enemy is one of the biggest mistakes you can make in war. Racism is the easiest road to
that error.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Undeserving Vets

People often say we should treat vets better than others because they were willing to lay
down their lives to protect our freedoms. This is nonsense. No vet since WWII
fought in a war where our freedoms were at risk. We started all wars since. We
attacked for various economic motives. We were never in any danger. The vets knew that too. They fought for much
less noble motives, mainly because they liked killing. Yes, they put themselves at risk, but they did it for
selfish motives.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Uneconomic War

The American military is like a teenager who spends $30 winning a $3 plush toy at a carnival. The American military have become obsessed with winning the Afghan
and Iraq wars, the have lost site of the prize (lithium in Afghanistan and oil in Iraq). Like the teenager they are
dragging the fight one merely to save face.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Unfulfilled Sadist

A soldier can in a day commit a rape, a murder and a torture and go to bed satisfied. But a cold-blooded sadist
like George W. Bush could order the genocide of million, without any pleasure. He went to bed unfulfilled aching
for something stronger.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Universal Fix

Just because a situation is intolerable does not mean that randomly killing civilians will make it any
better.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Universality

The principle of universality says you must judge your own military actions as if your enemy had done them to
you. For example, what would you think had Iraq attacked America, killed 8% of the
population, sold off all its oil resources, patented all its historic seed strains and sold them off and occupied
it for 13 years
on the ground the USA might be harbouring nuclear weapons?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Universality

Universality is a philosophical principle that cuts to the quick in deciding if a given policy is fair. You must
apply the same rules to your own and others’ behaviour. Any measure applied to gay people, Hispanics, women,
Muslims etc. must also be applied to everyone.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Unnecessary Submarines

The Prime Minister said that unless Canada’s submarine program starts functioning properly very soon, it
will be scrapped. This screams to me that the program is optional. We would have been much better off from the
getgo spending the money elsewhere. This also suggests the F35 is probably equally optional.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Unocal Motive

We all know why the USA is occupying Afghanistan:

The Taliban refused Unocal a free right of way for pipeline to the north, strategically important in case
Iran blocks the Straits of Hormuz.

The US wants Afghanistan’s four trillion dollars in strategic minerals, particularly lithium, important
for high performance batteries.

But why did Canada attack Afghanistan too? Prime Minister of Canada at the time, Jean
Chrétien
explained in his autobiography, My Years as Prime Minister, that Bush twisted his arm. The deal was if Canada would join in attacking
Afghanistan, Bush would let Canada off the hook attacking Iraq in the coming Iraq war. But Bush is gone, why is
Canada still pummeling Afghanistan?

Obama, like Bush, is in the pockets of the defence industry. They want a
permanent war, as expensive as possible without triggering a taxpayer revolt.

The defence industry in Canada, is known for corruption. Harper is accepting
benefits, possibly legally, from them. They want permanent war.

Harper is mentally defective. He is like a child who wants to play general. Having a war to command makes him
feel manly and important. His pudginess is a constant source of embarrassment to him. War is his way of dealing
with the feelings of inferiority his body generates. Napoléon
had similar body image problems with his short stature and deformed hand.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Unprovoked Attacks

When a soldier enlists to attack a country that was no risk to his country, his country is really doing him a
favour. They are giving a sadist an opportunity to rape and kill without legal consequences. If, he gets injured,
or stricken with PTSD/paralysing guilt, the soldier
should not have the same rights for financial and medical support for him and his family for the rest of his life
that a real vet would deserve.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Unreasonable Americans

Imagine how rude and nutty it would be if the USA told Mexico, You have three days to catch
all the drug dealers in Mexico and hand them over to us in chains. We are not prepared to even give you a list of
who we want or to present any evidence they committed crimes in the USA.

That is what the USA did to Afghanistan, demanding they catch and hand over bin Laden and his Al Qaeda
supporters. He turned out to be very hard to catch, even with the full power of the US military looking for him.
What the US actually did was even nuttier because the USA had no extradition treaty, it refused to negotiate one
and it refused Afghanistan’ offer hold an ad hoc extradition hearing to present evidence. It demanded
Afghanistan violate international law to comply with American demands. On top of this, the US occupied the
Afghanistan ever since, butchering hundreds of people daily, justifying this mayhem because Afghanistan did not and
could not comply with that ridiculous demand. By the way, the USA has never shown anyone the
evidence that bin Laden masterminded 9/11 without inside help.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Unsatisfactory Punishment

Seeing a torturer tortured is an unsatisfactory resolution, even when the torture is delivered by the natural
universe, such as a festering leg (King Henry VIII) or Cheney’s artificial heart. The torturer simply endures
his pain. He does not see his torment in any way connected with the pain he has inflicted on others.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

US Empire

The USA has 800 military bases in 63countries. (1,400 and 120 according to Julian Assange.) Obviously the USA is an empire,
not quite like Rome or Britain, but one where a country exerts global commercial and military control.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

US Military Is For Offence

For the purpose of defence, nearly all of the US military is superfluous. No country has attacked the USA since
it acquired nukes. They all know that if they attacked and did any serious damage, the USA would annihilate them in
minutes with a rain of ICBMs. Only a diffuse,
non-national, terrorist organisation dare attack. The military is primarily for foreign offensive wars to acquire
natural resources. The nuclear umbrella allows the USA to pre-emptively and illegally attack other countries
without risking counter attacks on its own soil.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

US Responsible For Iranian Nukes

The image to the right is a centrifuge. North Korea unveiled third generation centrifuges capable of enriching
uranium which could be used for nuclear power or nuclear bombs. The United States has cried foul. It is regrettable
but hardly foul. Why? In his state of the union axis of evil speech, President Bush promised to annihilate Iraq,
Iran and North Korea. Iraq is rubble. Iran and North Korea are still standing but only because they have a tiny
nuclear threat. Obama has not rescinded Bush’s promise. The United States has enough nukes to wipe out
humanity many times over. It and its nuclear puppet Israel threaten other nations with preemptive nuclear
annihilation. Under those conditions, you could make a case it becomes rational for other nations to seek a nuclear
deterrent. It is irrational for the USA to expect other nations to disarm while it maintains such a grossly lethal
arsenal, not just a minimal deterrent.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The USA’s Anti-Democratic Blunder

In the 1960s there was a civil war in Viet Nam. Had the USA lets things be, the
majority in Viet Nam would most likely have prevailed. However, Kennedy decided he knew better than the people of
Viet Nam what was good for them. He wanted to tip the scales in favour of the less popular dictator, Diem and sent
advisors This was a violation of the democratic principle of letting others choose
their own leaders. It was a disaster for everyone.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Use Of Intervention

The ghastly fighting in Syria calls out for intervention. Three thoughts:

Countries never go to war for altruistic reasons.

How would we decide which side to support — the government or the rebels? Which side you support mainly
depends on whose propaganda you believe. It is so easy to be manipulated if you don’t have first hand
information.

How would carpet bombing Syria save lives?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

USO
Tours

Some conservative people have done USO
tours who you would expect to promote war: Bob Hope, John Wayne, Charlton Heston, Clint Eastwood, Roy Rogers, Randy
Travis… But others such as Robin Williams, Steve Martin, Billy Joel, Al Franken, Marilyn Monroe, Ben
Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey, Jr., Dana Carvey and Steven Colbert were not thinking. Why on earth would they
encourage war criminals who have all committed a capital crime, namely adding and abetting an aggressive war, to rape and murder still more children? Such butchers are the last people on earth I
would want to cheer up. It is not like WWII
when they were defending the USA.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Vampire Myth

The vampire myth is a metaphor for soldiers and other serial killers who cannot help themselves from killing and
hurting people.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Vanity and War

Can you think of anyone who started a war who was not pathologically vain?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Vets Deserve Death

If somebody skydives into a volcano and gets killed or thoroughly injured, huge outpourings are sympathy are not
the first reaction that comes to mind. They did not have to do that. There was no benefit to it other than the
thrill. They knew perfectly well the odds of harm. That is just the natural consequences of such behaviour. I think
vets should be treated the same way. Neither Afghanistan nor Iraq attacked the USA. Going there to kill people was
not necessary. Soldiers were not drafted. International law considers it a war crime (aiding and abetting an
aggressive war) especially way the war was prosecuted with routine torture and banned weapons. It is time to tell
these birds they were lucky to get off as lightly as they did after committing a capital crime and to shut up and
stop whining.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Vets Deserve Shit

The most important fact in considering the veterans of the Afghan war is that it was illegal because it was
aggressive first strike. Afghanistan did not attack us, we attacked them unprovoked.
According to Chrétien, the only
reason to participate was Bush twisted our arms.

Aiding or abetting such a war is a capital war crime.

Thus honouring Canada’s vets is analogous to honouring German or Japan’s WWII
vets. I don’t think we should do it.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Vets Shamed Their Country

American vets of the Viet Nam War, the Afghan war and the Iraq war did not serve their country, they shamed it,
just as did the German vets of WWII.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Vets, Get Lost!

Veterans of the Afghan war injured, killed and tortured men, women and children who were no threat to Canada. I
did not want those Afghans harmed. How dare Afghan vets beg me for honour, handouts and special benefits.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Victors Warp The Story

You can be fairly sure that the victors were not nearly as heroic as advertised and the vanquished not nearly as
dastardly.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The Viet Nam Memorial

The Germans have no memorial to WWII comparable to the American Viet Nam Memorial.
Americans still stubbornly pretend what they did in Viet Nam was legal, moral and heroic. Eventually, families will
petition to have names removed from the wall. They would wish to disassociate themselves from war criminal
ancestors, much the way they disassociate themselves from slave-owning ancestors.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Vilify Your Way To Power

Adolf Hitler was a nutty right-wing politician who rose to power by vilifying all Jews. Newt Gingrich is a nutty
right-wing politician attempting to rise to power by vilifying all Muslims.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Vilifying Suicide Bombers

Americans and Israelis promote the idea that killing a random group of people, if it involves suicide, is
immoral where it is heroic otherwise. This is nonsense. The suicide proves sincerity and offers inherent
retribution. Killing random groups of people is wrong, period, no matter how you do it. This is just American and
Israeli propaganda to justify their war crimes trying to make them look different from those of their
adversaries.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Virtual Torture

The US Military is working on technology to implant false memories. They will we be able to use it to virtually
torture someone, to bulk traumatise them with false memories of being tortured.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

vs

A terrorist group in the middle east.

: the original name. People want to appear independent use this name.

: silly name made up by Obama. Levant is antique and claims much more
territory than the actual terrorist group does. People who want to appear as Obama supporters use this
term.

Daesh is essentially an Arabic acronym formed from the initial letters of the group’s Arabic name,
al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil Iraq wa al-Sham. Although it does not mean anything as a
word in Arabic, it sounds unpleasant and the group’s supporters object to its use. It is just a
childish insult.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Want to Rescue?

A US Military recruiting ad suggests that recruits will spend most of their time rescuing people from natural
disasters. However, they do this so rarely, they had no footage for the spot, so they did it all with computer
animation. If you want to rescue people, join the Coast Guard, become a firefighter or a policeman, or any one of
many specialised rescue teams. The military’s primary job is killing people.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Wanting To Fly

I wonder how often some teenager infected with the desire to fly joined the air force only to discover they had
a much darker purpose in mind for him — randomly killing civilians in some country whose oil the USA
coveted.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

War = Terrorism

War is just well-funded terrorism. It is no more respectable.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

War Accomplishing Nothing

After 15 years and 2 months
of occupation, Afghanistan is the worst country on earth for women to live. Americans are laughable when they try
to justify extending the Afghan war as necessary for women’s rights. Karzai, the American-appointed dictator,
imposes the exact same Shari’a
law that the Taliban did. Americans are sanctioning the beating of women who show their faces in public.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

War and Unemployment

Obama is reluctant to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Iraq because that makes the unemployment figures
worse.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

War Crimes

Almost no Americans are aware that it is an international capital (hanging) war crime to aid and abet a first
strike at some other nation. That crime has been interpreted as broadly writing propaganda. Literally even peeling
potatoes is aiding and abetting an invasion/occupation. Oddly, American are commonly aware that Nazis were hanged
at the Nuremberg trials on just this charge, but they somehow imagine Americans are immune to the law because of
their inherent wonderfulness. When the UN
was formed, the nations of the world agreed to freeze all boundaries to avoid future borders wars. The
UN
also made it illegal for a country to attack another first. Then they broke the spirit of their own law by
encouraging Jews to invade Palestine. Of course, the USA attacks other nations all the time. It is not that the USA
has some special dispensation to do this; it is simply that might makes right. Americans are also aware that
prominent Republican hawks such as Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Kissinger… avoid visiting Germany
because they fear the Germans will arrest them for war crimes. At some time in future, the USA may not be quite so
powerful, then a backlog of prosecutions will deal with a lifetime of war criminals.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

War Crimes

The United States, Britain, France and Israel have all conducted illegal aggressive
(first strike) wars. They are thus the last nations that should be entrusted with nuclear weapons. Further, they
have no moral ground to demand other nations such as Iran to forgo nuclear weapons, especially when they have
threatened first strike nuclear attack.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

War Criminal Vets

When I point out to Americans and Canadians that aiding and abetting aggressive (first
strike) war is a capital offence and hence most of the current American and Canadian vets are guilty of a hanging
crime because they participated in the Viet Nam, Afghanistan or Iraq wars and every Nazi hanged at the end of
WWII
was charged with only this offence, I get several responses:

Afghanistan attacked us first. We had every right to defend ourselves.

Afghanistan did not attack the USA on 9/11. The official story is that Al Qaeda did,
not Afghanistan. Bush said he thought bin Laden was hiding in Afghanistan. It turned out he was in Pakistan. Then
the USA attacked the Taliban, the government of Afghanistan, whom Bush did not even allege to have any rôle
whatsoever in 9/11. This is like attacking Argentina because of a rumor Pablo Escobar was
hiding there. It was a resource war. bin Laden was just an excuse to invade. Even after bin Laden was dead, the war
plodded on.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

War Destroys Ecosystems

War would be not quite so terrible if it just reduced populations without destroying ecosystems.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

War Duration

America’s war against Viet Nam was its longest war, lasting from the Gulf of Tonkin incident on
1964-08-02 to the truce on 1973-01-27, a total of
8 years, 5 months and 25 days. The war against Afghanistan
started on 2001-10-07 and has been waging 15 years, 2 months and 2 days
0. Will it beat Viet Nam in the Guinness Book of Records of pointless wars?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

War Fashions

Only Americans march into the desert to wage war wearing forest green and brown camouflage.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

War for No Official Reason

The thing that makes absolutely no sense about Americans is that they learned almost immediately that Iraq had
no WMDs
and Bush had lied to them about the need for war. However, even though they knew they had no reason for the war,
they kept sacrificing their children to fight it and pouring trillions of dollars into it for
13 years
with only token protest. It appears, to Americans, war is the normal state and they need a constitutional amendment
to end one.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

War Guilt

Nobody knows better than the soldiers themselves what evils they committed in Afghanistan and Iraq. We know it
is much worse than usual because so many returning soldiers now commit suicide or wallow in despair and guilt.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

War in Mali

The pro war folks have done a bang up job making the case for a war in Mali. The bad guys are so mean, they
won’t even let people listen to Mali’s spectacular music. There is no shortage of bad guys in the
world. Consider Robert Mugabe, Assad, Mohamed Morsi, Omar al-Bashir, Yoweri Museveni, Netenyahu, Kim
Jong-un… How do you decide which one to bomb first? First pick the ones with oil (Iraq), then the ones with
lithium (Afghanistan) (needed for batteries), then coltan (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Afghanistan) (niobium and tantalum
needed for semiconductors) then, of course, gold. Mali is the third largest producer of gold in Africa.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

War Propaganda

War propaganda uses bombast, music and ceremonies to sell war. It can even sell aggressive (first strike) war
such as the American invasions of Nicaragua, Afghanistan and Iraq. You would think when you were defending your
country the key is to do whatever is necessary to deter the enemy, and not waste effort on anything else. War
propaganda convinces the combatants that they must eliminate the non-combatants including the elderly, women and
children (as with the Dresden and Hiroshima bombings). They must torture the enemy with electric cords and with
banned weapons such as white phosphorous. These are wasteful emotional indulgences. Propaganda portrays them as
heroic.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

War Propels Evolution

I suspect we will discover that humans evolved complex social co-operation primarily because larger, better
organised groups can more easily kill off neighbouring groups and take over their territory.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

War Starters Do Not Deserve Honour

I think it absurd to sanctify political leaders after their deaths, such as Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher,
when they started a war.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The War That Keeps On Chugging

So how is the occupation of Afghanistan going after 15 years and 2 months
? The war is still going, even though its alleged goal, killing bin Laden has already been accomplished. It has
been humiliating for the biggest military on earth to be stalemated by an impoverished third world country less
than a tenth its size.

The USA demanded Afghanistan capture and turn over bin Laden without the extradition treaty and extradition
hearing required by international law. It turned out Bush was demanding the impossible. It turned out bin Laden was
extremely hard to track down and, further, he was not even in Afghanistan. Because Afghanistan did not instantly
comply to this illegal demand, Bush used it as justification for an invasion on 2001-10-07. Unocal still does not have its free pipeline right of way, one of the major unstated
motives for the war. Heroin production is up from near zero to #1 in the world, over a trillion dollars a year. The
drug trade has ensnared Afghan and American alike in massive corruption. Even Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
calls Afghanistan a narcostate. On 2011-05-01, a strike force
of Seals (a type of high-status soldier) assassinated bin Laden in Pakistan. Now we will never find out how he
pulled off the greatest terrorist attack of all time, 9/11, with his rag tag band of cave
dwellers, a feat German intelligence considered utterly impossible.

As of 2011-08-27, the Afghans managed to kill 2,613
invaders. There is no democracy. The country is run by a dictator, Hamid Karzai and his family. Afghanistan has
become the most corrupt nation on earth.

The USA has spent more money on the occupation than it would take to fix most American and planetary ills. The
American public still erroneously blame Afghanistan for 9/11 even though they know
perfectly that the hijackers were Saudi — not an Afghan among them, idiotically conflating all Muslims.
Americans are still in deep denial that they fought a completely pointless and illegal war.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

The War That Keeps on Chugging

So how is the occupation of Iraq going after 13 years and 8 months
? The war is still going, even though its alleged goal, toppling Saddam, was accomplished almost immediately. It
has been humiliating for the biggest military on earth to be stalemated by an impoverished third world country less
than a tenth its size.

Just before the invasion, Saddam offered to surrender. Bush turned him down and bombed Baghdad’s
residential neighbourhoods on 2003-03-20, broadcast live on CNN. Saddam immediately went into hiding. Saddam was captured in his spider hole on 2003-12-13. He was hanged on 2006-12-30. We discovered that Bush was indeed lying about Saddam’s nukes, ambiguously referred
to as WMD
s. Saddam did not even have any poison gas left over from that George Herbert Walker Bush gave him on credit to
attack Iran.

As of 2010-05-08, the Iraqis managed to kill 4,404 invading
Americans. There is no democracy, unless you count the sort of democracy enjoyed in the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea. Iraq has become one of the most corrupt nations on earth.

From a booty point of view, things went rather well. The famous Iraq National Museum was looted. On 2011-06-23 (the same day Obama announced the troop withdrawal) Iraq’s remaining oil reserves
were sold off to American and European oil companies. Monsanto now owns all of Iraq’s seed genome and has a
monopoly to sell seeds in Iraq which it contaminates with a terminator gene to force repurchase each year. Farmers
can no longer use their own seeds they have developed over millennia.

The USA has spent more money on the occupation than it would take to fix most American and planetary ills. It is
gradually coming clear to the American public that Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. That notion got started with Cheney’s dissembling. Americans are beginning to admit that
they fought a completely pointless and illegal war. Americans excuse themselves for the error my claiming the only
good Muslim is a dead Muslim, whether his country attacked or not.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

War is Too Safe

In Napoléon
’s day, generals met the night before a battle to finalise the time and place. Bystanders could watch from
the sidelines. The people who died in battle were the players, those who enjoyed carnage. From a Darwinian point of
view, we purged the gene pool of its most bloodthirsty citizens. Today, bloated teens play video games in complete
safety in the basement of the CIA
building in Langley Virginia, which control drones to kill families in Pakistan. We are now carefully preserving
the genes of psychopaths.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

War Tricks

Imagine you were a small country or organisation at war with the most powerful military on earth. How could you
possibly win? You would have to use psychological warfare to trick your opponent into spending $1,000,000 for every $1 you spent. You would have to trick your
opponent into trampling the rights of their own citizens so they came to see their own government as the
enemy.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

War With Briefcases

Today, Caesar’s plundering legions would arrive in black limos carrying titanium laptops. President Obama
announced the phase-out of the Iraq war on the exact same day bureaucrats in his administration announced that all
of Iraq’s remaining oil reserves were going up for auction to European and American oil interests.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

War With Iran

Yes, the USA has a bigger military that almost everyone else on earth put together, but try as they might for a
decade they could not defeat two tiny unarmed countries, Afghanistan and Iraq. What makes them think they can
defeat Iran? Unlike Afghanistan and Iraq, Iran has rockets, planes, missiles and bombs. Iran has friends —
Russia and China. Its sunburn missiles can sink a destroyer with one shot. It can block the Straits of Hormuz thus
strangling most of the world’s oil supply. It has had a decade to prepare since Bush promised to annihilate
them in his Axis of Evil speech. It has fortified its defences underground. They may even have nukes. Trade
insults, not bombs.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Warring Countries Lie

If you look back on history, countries at war lie through their teeth about everything to do with the war:
reasons for it, cost, casualties, atrocities, odds of winning… Sun Tsu millennia ago observed All war is deception. Logically, Americans should expect no more truth from their leaders and media
than the Germans got from Hitler, yet they naïvely
treat every word as unimpeachable truth.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Wars are Like Fights

Fights are easy to start. All it takes is a scowl or a shove. Fights are easy to keep going. All the blows
received so far are sufficient justification to keep the fight going. Wars work the same way.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Wars of Separation

Some of the longest and most vicious wars are over separation. What we need is a formal, civilised process for
separation.

Hold a U.N.-monitored vote of the people in the region considering separation.

If more that 60% vote for separation, the separation process begins. You need more
than 50% because this is like a constitutional change and because you don’t want
it drifting back under 50% shortly after the separation.

There is a binding arbitration process to divvy up the wealth and debts.

That would redirect energy into politics rather than violence.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Waterboard Dick Cheney

It would be fitting if Dick Cheney were water boarded to get him to confess to his war crimes.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

We Are Here To Help

It is naïve
of Americans to expect the Afghans to believe the lie that the USA is there to help them when has been so much
killing, torture, violence against children and desecration of Islam. The Afghans never asked for help. The Taliban
continue to this day to be the most popular political faction in Afghanistan. If that were not so, the Taliban
would have utterly no chance against the combined might of the Afghan people, the USA, Britain, France and
Canada.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

We Are War Criminals

Attacking other countries unprovoked is illegal. That makes the USA, Canada and Britain a nation of war
criminals. None of us had any right to invade Afghanistan or Iraq, much less occupy them for years, much less use
banned weapons and torture. We are the bad guys. We are in an analogous position to the Germans in the time of
Hitler who did nothing to stop him.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

We Can Do No Evil

It is really quite odd that even when people learn about the evil their military and intelligence organisations
indulge in, they imagine these groups are motivated by the purest of motives and other countries’ by the most
dastardly.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Weapon of Peace

The America military tell me nukes are weapons of peace. If that were true, then they should want to see that
everyone gets one. They are weapons of hegemony.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Weapon Responsibility

I takes many hands to fire a missile and kill a child:

Weapons designers.

Weapons factory owners.

Weapons factory workers.

Generals and politicians to buy the weapons and order the strike.

Soldiers to prepare and fire the weapons.

Taxpayers to fund it all.

Without each contributor doing his bit, the missile could not be fired. However, most North Americans put
100% of the moral responsibility on the politicians.

I think the weapons factory owners especially deserve a significant share of the blame. They sell to both sides
in conflicts. They foment conflicts. They bribe politicians to buy unnecessary weapons which triggers an arms
race.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

What American Cowards Mean by Self Defence

American soldiers justify shooting children or women on the grounds they were carrying weapons or might have
hidden weapons. They consider this self defence. Try that defence inside the USA, as George
Zimmerman is attempting. Further, this is no more self defence than a bank robber shooting a guard. American
soldiers have absolutely no business being in Iraq. Their very presence is a capital war crime.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

What Americans Mean By Enemy

Americans use the term the enemy differently from the rest of the world. Others use it to refer to a
country attempting to invade or destroy their own, one with at least some chance of succeeding. Americans use the
term more broadly to mean anyone who resists American will. It can refer to a rival, a victim who resists
exploitation or even someone who hurls impotent insults like Chavez.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

What is a Crime?

What do we consider a crime? Most people did not consider drinking liquor a crime during prohibition.
Prohibition does not work unless nearly everyone is in favour. Most Americans today condone tearing children to
pieces in front of their parents, so long as it is American soldiers or mercenaries doing it and if they do it from
a distance with explosives or chemicals weapons. It does not matter that according to international law, these are
capital crimes. The soldiers will not be prosecuted until the vast majority wants those crimes prosecuted. People
don’t want to condemn the soldiers because they too are partly responsible. Some really damaging behaviour
will never be criminal, such as polluting, spewing greenhouse gases, deliberately wasting energy, taking so much
from others they perish, priests having their way with children, having litter-sized families, refusing to
inoculate… The crimes are too popular with a substantial minority or even majority.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

What Did You Expect?

If you train and pay soldiers to torture, rape or kill civilians including children, you should not be the least
surprised when they continue to do it when their tour is over. That sort of evil is addictive. It is deeply
corrosive.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

What Died With bin Laden?

Now that bin Laden was assassinated, we will never see the evidence how he masterminded 9/11 without inside help.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

What Do You Mean by Expensive?

At $9 billion, the Hadron Collider is the most expensive scientific experiment in
history. Compare that with the approximately $1000 billion spent blowing up goat
herders in Afghanistan and Iraq.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

What If China Behaved Like America?

What if China had used stealth technology to enter the USA without permission to kill someone they considered an
arch criminal. There would be calls to nuke China at this assault on sovereignty. Obama’s invasion of
Pakistan was crazy grandstanding that risked nuclear war with Pakistan. Obama lucked out. Risking nuclear war to
nail one man was reckless. That is why he had to monitor the operation step by step, ready to mollify the Pakistani
leadership should they have been so furious they were ready to use their nukes. Cut it out you American
yahoos! You do not have the right to risk my life as a Canadian in your cowboy escapades.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

What Motivates Suicide Attackers

Could you imagine a situation where you would sign up for a suicide mission? Would you do it to save your
family? To oust an invader plundering your country? To avenge the death of your first love? To pay back people who
had anally raped you as a child? To destroy those who had tortured you? Because you though it just might help you
get laid? You would not do it casually. If we want to stop suicide attacks, we will have to investigate why
attackers think such drastic measures are necessary.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

What Would You Say to A Child Rapist?

What would you say to someone who had raped, tortured, mutilated or murdered a child, or helped someone else do
so? You get a chance every time you meet a member of the armed services of the USA, Canada or Britain.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

What’s the Score?

Americans treat war the same way they treat professional sports. They just want to know what the score is. No
other details are of interest. Why the war started is irrelevant. The cost of fighting the war is no object. What
winning the war would accomplish has no relevance. Team spirit is sufficient justification for torture, child rape
and genocide. As coach Henry Russell Sanders put it, Winning isn’t everything;
it’s the only thing.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

When Americans Avoid War

One of the most disgusting things about Americans is the only reason they ever avoid war is injured pride when
they bog down in a stalemate.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

When it is OK to Plunder

The Romans told themselves it was OK to plunder the surrounding territories because they were Roman and the
people they plundered were mere barbarians (wore beards). The European settlers told themselves it was OK to push
native American off their lands because they were Christian and the natives were not. The Germans told themselves
it was OK to invade surrounding countries because they were the master race and needed more lebensraum (living room). The Jews told themselves it was OK to steal Palestinian lands because they
were god’s chosen people and the Palestinians were not. The Americans told themselves it as OK to invade
Afghanistan and Iraq unprovoked and confiscate their natural resources because they were American and the Afghans
and Iraqis were not. Apparently, entire populations will excuse themselves for stealing and genocide for the most
trivial of excuses.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Whistleblower Blues

Imagine you were a whistleblower. When you went to court, you discovered the judge, the prosecutor and the jury
and their bosses were all people you had outed as criminals. You would not expect much of a fair trial. This is
roughly what happened to Bradley Manning who has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for
exposing widespread criminal activity. The government claims the law demands Manning look the other way. The
Nuremberg principles of international law say he is personally responsible. Just following
orders is no excuse for letting crimes pass.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

White Poppies

We had two really nasty fights with Germany, one 98 years
ago and a second 71 years
ago. Every year, in Canada, on November 11, we celebrate our victory over the Germans and tell tales of how evil
the Germans were and how heroic we were to firebomb Dresden targeting women and children. Granted, the Germans were
rather badly behaved, but since then we have done the same sort of things as Hitler’s invasion of Poland
claiming self defence — namely invading other countries such as Cuba, Viet Nam, Grenada, Afghanistan and Iraq
unprovoked and even worse things, including using chemical weapons, using banned weapons such as cluster bombs,
napalm, DU, white phosphorus… We routinely tortured
detainees, stole natural resources, raped children… and in general treated the Geneva conventions as
quaint. The people who fought in WWI
and WWII
are for the most part long dead. We are good friends with the current generation of Germans. It is immature and
self-indulgent to keep rubbing our friends’ noses in the sins of their dead grandfathers. Psychologists tell
us it is pathological to nurse memories of injustices even a year old. What we are doing is certifiable.

Why do we do it? It is a Pavlovian attempt to make the phony John Wayne heroism associated with those wars rub
off on this generation’s sordid and illegal wars such as Viet Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq. That is why I refuse
to wear the red poppy or engage in any of this adulation of centenarian war criminals. Please join me in protesting
this insanity by wearing a white poppy instead of the traditional red one used to glorify and justify war.
The original intent of Remembrance day was to remember how horrible the wars were so we would never repeat them.
Its has been turned on its head. Remembrance Day is used to portray war as a grand adventure.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Who Attacked Whom?

Since WWII, who has been invading and occupying whom? The USA
attacked Korea, Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, Grenada, Nicaragua, Afghanistan and Iraq. Israel took territory from
Palestine, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. The USSR
attacked Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Afghanistan. Iraq attacked Iran. Canada attacked Afghanistan. Given
that the USA and Israel attack, occupy and plunder considerably more often than the average nation, is it any
wonder that other nations fear them? Given their past bad behaviour, obviously, they especially cannot be trusted
with nukes. Yet they claim they should have them, that they desperately need
them, but no one else should be entrusted with them.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Who Is Evil?

Evil is relative. Had Japan won WWII, we never would never have heard the end of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It would have been played up even bigger than we play up the holocaust. We consider it evil
for Iranians to have nukes but virtuous for America and Israel to have them. Environmentalists consider those that
trash the environment evil and corporations consider the environmentalists evil for interfering with their profits.
Keep relativity in mind when someone tries to convince you to kill off evil doers. An evil
person is someone who tries to harm or thwart you. Usually they are motivated because they believe you are
trying to harm or thwart them. You can see why increasing your opposition often results in them
becoming even more evil.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Who May Have an Opinion On War?

Soldiers often claim that only those who have been in uniform are entitled to have an opinion on war. That is
like saying only pedophiles are entitled to have an opinion on child molesting.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Who Votes For War?

What sort of person would vote for the wars in the middle east?

People similar to those who approved of Nazis extracting gold from the teeth of Jews because they liked the
gold.

People similar to those who approved of Hitler’s concentration camps because they were Christian and
the people in the camps were not.

Because they are paranoid ignoramuses who feel threatened by unarmed people on the other side of the globe
who make only $5 a month who had nothing to do with 9/11.

They are beyond contempt.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Who Wants War?

Americans were very excited about the Afghan and Iraq war in the opening days, but soon lost stomach for them.
Yet the leaders kept the wars percolating for years and years even though the majority of people wanted the wars
stopped. Did you ever wonder why a politician would do that? Who was pulling his chain and why?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Why Acquire Nukes?

Which nations are most likely to acquire nukes? Those which have been threatened with nuclear attack. Which
nations have the most moral right to acquire nukes? Those which have been threatened with nuclear attack. Both
Israel and the USA announced they planned a first strike nuclear attack on Iran. I would say that gives Iran even
more right to nukes than either Israel or the USA.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Why America Usually Loses

Consider the major wars the USA has participated in during the last 70 years:
WWII, the Korean War, the Viet Nam War, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. Even though the USA
spends more on the military than any other nation, it still managed to lose four of those six wars. Why? Because
most of the time, it was in the wrong. It attacked other nations unprovoked. Defending the homeland inspires
soldiers to fight. Thus the enemieswere inspired and the Americans were not.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Why Are Americans So Upset With Me?

I find it absolutely baffling that Americans get so angry with me for telling them to stop butchering children.
What possible benefit do they get from this crime? Why is my disapproval so threatening to them? Do they get that
angry when vegans or environmentalists tell them to stop eating cows? Or Christians tell them to stop having
abortions? It is simply that I trigger the natural guilt they feel and they take it out on me instead of
themselves? Is it that I break through their self-deception that what they are doing is OK?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Why Are Terrorists Willing to Sacrifice Their Lives?

Americans refuse to ask themselves the most basic question about terrorism — Why are terrorists willing to
commit suicide to hurt Americans? Hint: America illegally attacked two nations unprovoked and occupied them both to
this day in Roman-style resource wars. Combined with the 12 years of sanction bombings
between the Gulf war and the Iraq war, Americans have killed millions of Muslims and routinely tortured everyone
they could capture, even children. If you were a Muslim, would you not at least consider doing something drastic to
try to stop the killing?

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Why Continue?

Many Americans are willing to keep the Afghan and Iraq wars going indefinitely because the military wants to.
They don’t even request any reasons for it. This is a bit like asking a Ford dealer if you should buy a new
car.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Why Dictators Favour Compulsory Military Service

Dictators have always been keen on compulsory military service. It gives the state a chance to brainwash the
recruits into mindlessly surrendering to arbitrary authority. It makes for a docile population. Right wingers who
distrust democracy favour it too for the same reason.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Why Did the USA Lose the Wars In Afghanistan and Iraq

The USA has been trying to subdue Afghanistan for 15 years. They have been trying to subdue Iraq
for 12 years. The USA has spent over a trillion dollars, but can’t defeat two unarmed,
penniless countries each less than a tenth their size. What gives? Granted the Russians could not defeat them
either, but then the Afghans had American help. In their desperation to prevail, Americans resorted to routine
torture, targeting children and women, rape, use of banned weapons like DU, white phosphorus, napalm, land mines, cluster bombs, desecration of corpses,
Qur’an
s and mosques. The resistance countered with suicide missions. America is using extreme force to:

Force the population to accept Hamid Karzai as leader. He is arguably the most corrupt politician in the
world.

Accept Hamid Karzai as the biggest heroin dealer on the planet — pumping out a trillion dollars worth a
year. The Taliban had shut the trade down almost completely.

Hand over Afghanistan’s minerals, especially lithium, at bargain prices to the USA.

Commit acts of blasphemy against Islam (this is a torture/brainwashing technique)

Ask yourself, how could it be possible, these tiny countries fought the best equipped, richest, most high tech,
overwhelmingly larger invader to standstill?

I think the answer is motivation. The Americans cornered the Afghans and Iraqis and gave them no way out. They
would sooner die that accept the American indignities. The American soldiers have no corresponding motivation.
Neither Afghanistan nor Iraq threaten American families in the slightest. The soldiers are bored and enjoy killing
and torture, but to no purpose other than entertainment. The Afghans will never give up.
The Americans have had more than enough already.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Why Do People Hate Me

If somebody hates you, most likely it is because something you have done, perhaps something you consider
perfectly OK, but that they consider exceptionally wicked. The first question you should ask yourself is
Did I do something to harm them? Americans have stolen natural resources and killed
children by the millions. Either they don’t see that as harm or they close their eyes to it altogether. They
are thus baffled that everyone does not love them and see the problem that millions of others hate them as a
problem of mental illness or religious delusion.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Why Do They Hate Us?

One of the creepiest things about Americans is they can torture, rape, use banned weapons such as white
phosphorus, land mines, napalm, DU, cluster bombs. They can plunder. They can target
children and old people. They can destroy the cropland and ecosystems. They can torment an occupied people with
regulations that change hourly without notice and severely punish them for infractions. But Americans apparently
can’t understand why their victims might hate them, or if they do have a glimmer they see that hate as a
character flaw since hating Americans is always unjustified, on par with hating innocent babies. It is not that
American are in total denial about their crimes, but they seem to imagine they are totally forgivable and always
justified because they trust Americans always act with just motivation.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Why Do You Tolerate American Wars?

Hey asshole, yes, you the American. Why on earth do you tolerate the Afghan and Iraq wars? You know how much
harm they have done. You know how much they cost. You know they have done no good at all. Why persist in the
slaughter? Because you are a first class idiot, racist and jerk. You treat war like a football game. You fight
purely out of pride. It bugs the hell out of you, that even with your trillions, you can squash little brown
Muslims like bugs. You are a bully and a thug. You are a rotten excuse for a human. Psychologically, you are
identical to the Germans who supported Hitler’s wars of aggression.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Why Does America Behave So Badly?

America contains a representative sample of all the world’s populations. So it is not some national flaw
in the American character that accounts for the country’s abominable behaviour — invading and
exploiting smaller countries in the manner of ancient Rome. It is the result of too much concentrated privilege and
power. Power corrupts.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Why Enlist?

In WWII, the dreadful things soldiers did and saw were
offset by the knowledge they were protecting their country.

In the case of the Afghan war, that was not so. Soldiers who signed up for a little adventure or bullying found
themselves trapped in endless rounds of combat, unlike WWII
where men were sensibly spelled off.

The problems with mental illness and suicide are much worse now. The men are deeply ashamed of what they did,
but they are not permitted to admit it. Even the CBC
maintains the fiction the Afghan war is legal. Harper maintains the lie that this brutal assault on Afghanistan is
for their own good and won’t let any soldier say otherwise. He is like some twisted Savonarola.

Why Enlist?

They are trying to disguise the basic fact of the military — why people enlist.

It is not to defend the USA. No country has attacked since the 1940s.

It is not for the pay, $2 an hour.

It is not for the flexible short hours.

It is not for the personal freedom.

It is not for the vacation-like locales.

It is not for the back-door draft.

They enlist because they like killing people, mostly civilians and children. They like torturing and sometimes
raping with almost no chance of going to jail for it. They enlist to bully.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Why Escalation

Why would the Iraqis be upping their resistance to the American occupation now the Americans have announced they
are leaving anyway? It is the last chance to get revenge on the bastards who tortured and killed their kids.

~ Roedy(born:1948-02-04 age:68)

Why God Favours the Defence

Countries that make a habit of invading others seem to ignore the factors that favour the defender:

The invader knows what he is doing is immoral and can’t seriously feel self righteous about his
battle.

The defender has two choices, prevail or die.

The invader has to import all his supplies. The defender has everything at hand.

The defender has motivation to keep fighting indefinitely. The invader loses motivation once the cost of the
invasion is more that the value of the plunder.

The invader’s casualties are soldiers. The defender losses are primarily civilians and children. This
gives the defender much greater motivation for revenge.

The defender knows the territory and many places to hide.

The defender is used to the water, the insects and the diseases.

Invaders tend to get involved in more than one invasion at once, so they have to split their efforts.
Defenders rarely do.

Sometimes countries will help the invader in return for a share of the spoils, e.g. Viet Nam and Iraq wars.
Sometimes countries will help the country being invaded because they want to deter the invader f